Kate is a Wisconsin native who got her start bringing sustainable food equity to her community as an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she has a bachelor’s degree in social work and a minor in environmental science. In 2016, at the age of 24, Kate became the youngest woman ever to serve in elected office in Eau Claire history, a record later broken by Kate’s former intern! As an organizer and city council member, Kate has been a leader in the Western Wisconsin region, igniting a local climate movement, fighting for livable wages and affordable housing, and protecting our right to vote. Kate is passionate about training and empowering a future generation of leaders and has supported the effort to bring diversity to our local elected offices, so our leaders look like our community in age, gender, race and sexual orientation. In her day job as the Movement Organizing Director for Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Kate supports the rural and suburban co-op organizers and directs the Rural Climate Program.