Cathy Albisa, Co-Executive Director
Field-Building and Organizational Strategy

Cathy  is a U.S.-based human rights lawyer, activist, and organizational leader known for her work at the intersection of racial justice, economic rights, and government accountability.

She has played a key role in advocating for structural reforms that center equity and sector including: Co-founder and former Executive Director of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) (now Partners for Dignity & Rights), where she advanced a rights-based approach to healthcare, housing, education, and labor, Vice President of Institutional Change at Race Forward, where she worked on transforming governance systems and embedding racial equity into public institutions. She is currently the Co-Executive Director of Branch4 supporting federal worker organizing, as well as broader coalitions to resist authoritarian consolidation of state power.

She is recognized for her movement-building work that links grassroots struggles to structural change in public institutions. Her advocacy focuses on democratizing government systems, defending public service, and advancing multiracial democracy.  She has published a wide range of articles on rights and justice  and is a graduate from Columbia Law School and the University of Miami.