- Mother of daughter, Pra'Elle.
- Founder and CEO of Cat'Ania's Hollywood Makeup & Hair, a TV/Film Industry Beauty Store and Salon.
- Cat'Ania taught Sculpture and Special Makeup Effects classes at UCLA, CMEX Workshops, California State University Longbeach, Truman College Chicago, Miami School of the Arts, Cat'Ania's Hollywood Makeup & Hair Studio, and USC School of Cinema.
- Enjoyed working as a personal makeup artist for Pauletta Washington, Denzel Washington's wife.
- Met Special Makeup Effects Master Tom Savini at Creations Convention. He later was a guest speaker for a class that Cat'Ania was teaching at CMEX Workshops. Tom and Cat'Ania became friends, she was a babysitter for Tom Savini's daughter one night while Tom performed in a Magic Show in California.
- Worked and met creature/production designer Patrick Tatopoulos director of "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" at MEL in 1989. Patrick and Cat'Ania became friends, he taught special effect sculpture classes for the Special Makeup Effects programs at CMEX Workshops.
- First met and worked with actress Regina King on the hit Television sit-com "227" in the late 1980's.
- First African American Professional Industry Makeup Artist to work four consecutive years on the Academy Awards "Oscars" award television broadcast.
- Co-Produced and Narrated "A Star for Marvin Gaye" her first television show with husband and business partner Don Howze, which was nominated in the Chicago Emmy Awards for Best Editing/Non-News Program.
- Cat'Ania's daughter at the age of seven was taught to airbrush mask and create special makeup effects. Her daughter would create 3-D special makeup effects on the celebrity children as a past time while visiting her mother some of the movie sets.
- Cat'Ania first met Makeup and Special Makeup Effects Designer Micheal Westmore while taking a group of her Special Makeup Effects Students on a tour to Paramount Studios 1989.
- CMEX Workshops was founded by Cat'Ania in 1988.
- McDonald's sponsored Cat'Ania's Kids are Stars Too Foundation from 2005 to 2012 for the Susan G. Koman Race for the Cure.
- Cat'Ania was inspired as a teen to become a celebrity makeup artist and director. During the time her Mother was a writer and costume designer for local Stage Plays. When Cat'Ania was young she designed a creature mask, her Mother threw it out by accident,not knowing where it came from. Cat'Ania got even more motivated and became a famous celebrity makeup and special makeup artist for motion picture and television thereafter.
- In 1996 was devastated after being diagnosed with Pulmonary Sarcoidosis while working as a Makeup Department Head on the Feature Film "Soul Food." Released from the film and hospitalized five days before it wrapped.
- Graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 1984, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Broadcast Communications.
- Met and worked as a makeup artist for Vivica A. Fox on Generations and reunited with her on the Feature Film "Soul Food" directed by George Tillman Jr.
- Former Freelance Entertainment Reporter for KZSW-TV in Hemet and Temecula, California.
- Cat'Ania's greatest inspiration is her daughter Pra'Elle and mother, Willa.
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