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
New York organizing campaigns
We’re organizing in NYC and across the state – #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY
Membership
Through organizing together we can build and exercise collective power to advance equity, health, and justice.
Trainings and Coaching
We provide training in community organizing, advocacy, and more.
Katal in the news
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N.Y. advocates call on Hochul to fully staff state’s jail and prison watchdog agency
Prison reform advocates say Gov. Kathy Hochul isn’t holding up her end of the bargain when it comes to appointing commissioners to fully staff the State Commission of Correction (SCOC), which is New…
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Prison oversight agency poised for new direction
The state Commission on Correction is supposed to get a shakeup of its leadership and mandate under state law, but not much has happened yet. We discuss the prison oversight agency with Yonah Zeitz…
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Prisoner advocacy groups push for more funding
The Katal Center for Equity, Health and Justice is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to restore $3 million in funding to the nonprofit Correctional Association of New York, which monitors conditions inside…
