Catriella is a graduate of Midreshet Lindenbaum and Drisha and has an MA in Jewish Studies from Harvard. She is the author of Foundations of Jewish Family Living, a Melton curriculum, and part of the Matan faculty (currently teaching a course on Chazal). Catriella is the director of PJ Our Way, a North American book-based Jewish engagement program for tweens. She has taught at Limmud and has been a keynote a number of times for local communities.