Katie is a single mom, lawyer, activist, and proud member of the queer community, originally from Nashville, Tennessee who currently calls Miami, Florida home. She has worked for large nonprofit organizations for many years where she built deep relationships with social justice workers across the country and developed extensive experience as a legal advocate. She also gained an invaluable education in the systemic failings of the nonprofit industrial complex. She was raised in the South eventually understanding that the land she grew up on was stolen from Indigenous people and stewarded by enslaved Africans in order to maintain systemic white supremacy. She uses her white privilege in radical new ways to support the very communities who have made the South a refuge to reclaim their ancestral power. She enjoys nourishing her chosen family with badass music, delicious home-cooked meals, and the joyful presence of her daughter, Ellis.