Cati Thelen trained on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Oregon Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Nashville Ballet, and Arc School of Ballet. She has performed with Pacific Northwest Ballet and ARC Dance Company. She was a member of the ARC Company in 2014 and has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. She joined the School faculty from 2011 - 2015 and returned to guest faculty in 2016.