BIO:Kate Catherall is a strategist and organizer with 16+ years of leadership experience in electoral politics, advocacy, and public engagement. She most recently served as Senior Advisor and Chief Engagement Officer at Avalanche Insights, where her team developed emotionally resonant messaging for values-aligned causes, candidates, and companies, and guided narrative development on a range of key issues including clean energy, reproductive freedom, gun violence, gender equity, and affordable housing. Kate is the Co-founder, Board Chair, and formerly Senior Partner of Arena, an organization that trains, supports, and convenes the next generation of progressive candidates and political professionals. She now serves the organization as a senior advisor and board chair, and continues to train at Arena Academies. Prior to founding Arena, Kate was a Senior Vice President at 270 Strategies, where she consulted for candidates, advocacy organizations, and philanthropies including The Knight Foundation, Educators for Excellence, Partners in Health, One Voice Movement, The Fairness Project, and the Cornell Alliance for Science.A passionate movement builder, Kate has led trainings on organizing and campaigning in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East with trainees hailing from more than 40 countries. She got her start as an organizer on Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign, and has since worked with dozens of candidates up and down the ballot including rising stars like Cory Booker, Lauren Underwood, Andy Kim, and Lina Hidalgo. Kate resides in Oakland, California with her partner Conrad and their retriever mix, Louie. She spends as much time outdoors as possible, and is passionate about travel, writing, pizza, behavioral science, and human centered design.