The Katal Center
Katal develops intergenerational leadership and organizing capacity to build community-based power and win systemic change for equity, health, and justice.
Our Work
Trainings and Coaching
We provide training in community organizing, advocacy, and more.
Civic Engagement
Civic engagement often focuses on voter registration – but there’s much more.
New York organizing campaigns
We’re organizing in NYC and across the state – #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY
Katal in the news
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Ex-CIA officer Nicholas Deml to take over Rikers Island jail operations
A federal judge has appointed a former CIA officer to take the mayor’s place managingoperations at the jail complex on Rikers Island, part of a decade-and-a-half-longprisoner civil rights case that…
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New York Prisons Are Getting More Cameras. Will It Make Them Safer?
Late last month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislators struck a final deal oncorrectional reforms after a tumultuous year in state prisons, marked by officers beatingprisoners to death and [&hell…
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Advocates condemn ‘hollow’ prison reform bill
Prison reform advocates blasted last-minute changes made by the governor to a prisonreform bill she signed into law last week. In Albany on Tuesday, prison reform advocates, community leaders and [&he…
