Katherine Diaz

Kathy Diaz is a facilitator and community organizer. She is a Latinx first-gen immigrant who has supported many campaigns and initiatives for immigrants’ rights, workers rights, language justice and climate justice in the U.S. and beyond. Prior to moving into consulting Diaz focused on immigrants’ rights and electoral organizing. Alongside her team at Mijente, Diaz demonstrated that Latinx folks have political power with or without papers in the Gente4Abrams campaign, increasing the Latinx vote by fourfold in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial primaries and helping to flip the state in 2021. She also led teams in North Carolina’s FueraTrump campaign to get Trump out of office. Diaz sharpened her ability to bring people of diverse experiences into progressive movement spaces through years of working at a café inside the Atlanta airport and a lifetime of having friends and family across the political spectrum. Diaz’s facilitation creates spaces where participants feel comfortable to explore difficult conversations and are vulnerable enough to learn out loud. Her specialty is in tailoring and holding spaces for diverse participants.

Sub-Specialties:
Building political power in Latinx communities, burnout in the nonprofit sector, patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism's influence in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, and building infrastructure for organizations on the left.