Cathy Albisa, Co-Director of Branch4

Cathy Albisa is currently the Vice President of Institutional and Sectoral Change at Race Forward, overseeing its work to support municipal, state and federal leaders to advance racial equity along with projects on housing, land and development.

She previously co-founded Partners for Dignity and Rights, a social movement organization that supports visionary grassroots campaigns for economic and social rights. As a senior attorney at the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights, she litigated constitutional cases on issues of reproductive rights, human rights and separation of church and state. She has published on a wide array of topics including reproductive rights, land housing, gender justice, equal protection, and local democracy. She received a BA from the University of Miami and is a graduate of Columbia Law School.