Kati is a queer writer, organizer and fabric artist based in Philadelphia, PA. For over thirty-five years she has worked in movements for peace, workers’ rights, and migration rights. During her professional career, she held numerous roles within the Service Employees’ International Union, including a stint as the Executive Vice President and Political Director of SEIU Healthcare PA; another as interim director of the SEIU PA State Council; one as the Political and Communications Director for SEIU Local 36 (now a part of 32BJ); and in the very beginning, as a Worksite Organizer at SEIU Local 715 in San Jose, California.

Kati was the first director of Philadelphia-Area Jobs with Justice, and the founding director of the Pennsylvania Working Families Party. She also served as the first Managing Director for the National Guestworkers Alliance, a project of the New Orleans Center for Racial Justice. Most recently, she has been the principal of the consulting firm New Working Majority. 

As a consultant, she has been the Pennsylvania State Advisor of the Movement Voter Project, helped to form the Athena Table, which is fighting Amazon and big tech, and coached dozens of executive directors, organizing directors and political directors.

She has been published in Wired Magazine, the New Labor Forum of CUNY, The Shape of Things to Come, and Ours to Hack & Own. For seven years, she authored the blog Hack the Union, about the intersection of work, technology and organizing.

Kati was a founding board member of Pennsylvania Voice, the Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition, and the Disruption Project. She is currently on the boards of Make the Road States and the Movement Alliance Project. She is the proud mother of Alina and Isaac, and holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Kati is for artists and organizers, always.