Kathryn Schroeder is currently a special student at University of Nebraska–Lincoln, after finishing her first year of an MFA at Illinois State University. She earned a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York. Schroeder has exhibited with Northern Clay Center in Minnesota, the American Craft Council, Carbondale Clay Center in Colorado, The International Dinnerware Design Museum in Michigan, Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine, and has presented and exhibited with The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Her work has also been published in American Craft and featured by Studio Potter.