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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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…
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State prison deaths grow in recent oversight findings
This year marks the deadliest start for state prisons in at least six years, according to findings recently reported by the watchdog Correctional Association of New York (CANY). The findings account…
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Rikers Island Records Third In-Custody Death, Escalating Systemic Concerns
NEW YORK — A 41-year-old woman died May 18, 2026, at the Rose M. Singer Center jail on Rikers Island, marking the third person to die while in custody on the island this year and intensifying scruti…
