Katherine Elizabeth (Hoffman) Baker
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." - Theodore Roosevelt
Kate Hoffman was born December 6, 1980, in Austin, TX. She lived most of her life in Colorado Springs, CO, and then moved to Boise where she graduated from Meridian High School. Kate plays alto saxophone in the Keith Stein Blue Thunder Marching band, the volleyball pep band, the basketball pep bands, and the All-Campus Concert Band; she also plays piano.
Kate is the vice president of the colony, served as the Blue Thunder band president for 2001-2002, has been saxophone section leader for two years, and was the recipient of the Louis Armstrong Award.
A junior majoring in creative writing and technical communication, Kate has been recognized by the Idaho Press Club for her journalism and is a two-time winner of the President's Essay Writing Award. She is a Brown Honors Scholar and a member of Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Golden Key Honors Society.
Kate is a consultant at the BSU Writing Center. When not otherwise occupied, she enjoys hot air ballooning, boating, camping, going on road trips, beading, watching fireworks and movies, running away to be a pirate, talking to friends online, and dreaming up elaborate schemes. While she endeavors never to wear the same color of underwear twice in one week, she is particularly fond of her orange undies.
Kate plans to one day write books that change the world and use the proceeds to found a school for exceptional students and teachers at which she will pour indecent amounts of money into the marching band program, work with enthusiastic, interesting, good people, and start a band called Wrath of Dave.