Cat Brooks

Cat’s vision is to revolutionize public safety in cities across the state by engaging visual arts, theater and organizing to imagine and  implement abolitionist solutions to effectively respond to community crises with care – not a badge and a gun. She played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ways our communities are policed and incarcerated. She is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Executive Director of The Justice Teams Network. Cat was also the runner-up in Oakland’s 2018 mayoral election.