About

 

Kati Sipp, she/her, Principal

Kati Sipp has been an organizer for over 30 years, and has developed a practice that is deeply rooted in the idea that the fight for a better world must be led by people organizing in their own communities to build power and elect leaders that prioritize the needs of people, not profit. 

  • Kati is an organizer and consultant who works with grassroots groups involved in immigrant and labor rights organizing. She lives just outside Philadelphia, PA.

  • In reverse chronological order, she has:

    • Served as the Managing Director for the National Guestworker Alliance

    • Founded the Pennsylvania chapter of the Working Families Party

    • Served as the Political Director and Executive Vice President of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania

  • She is the editor of Hack the Union, a blog which focuses on the intersections of work, organizing and technology.

  • She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

  • She is a queer, cisgendered woman with two children, Alina and Isaac.

  • You can find her personal Twitter here, Hack the Union’s Twitter here, and her Class War Kitteh Twitter here

Alina Sipp-Alpers, she/her, Digital Organizing and Communications Consultant

  • Alina is an organizer and consultant with five years’ experience. She currently lives in Boston, MA.

  • She holds a Bachelor of Science in Labor Studies and Employment Relations from the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University.

  • Alina specializes in digital organizing and communications. You can find her portfolio here.

  • She has previously worked with Massachusetts Jobs With Justice, 350 Massachusetts, One Pennsylvania, The Awood Center, Make the Road Pennsylvania, Make the Road States, Small Business Rising, and Jobs With Justice.

Dani Paez, she/her/ella, Research and Social Media Associate

  • Dani is an associate who grew up in New York, and currently resides in Texas. She is a first-generation American.

  • She is currently pursuing her Bachelor's degree of Fine Art in Photography with a minor in Political Science from Arizona State University  

  • Dani co-hosts a political podcast titled “Whatever is Left”, where she and her co-hosts discuss the current political climate, various events, and their difference of opinions while all still being classified as left.

Kati’s full story

For two years, she served as the Managing Director for the National Guestworker Alliance. Prior to her work with NGA, she founded the Pennsylvania affiliate of Working Families, and spent nine years at SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, where she served as the Political Director and Executive Vice President.

Kati began working with SEIU in California in 1997, where she was an internal organizer, working with classified school employees. She left California in 1999 to move back to the East Coast, and began work for the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, where she organized mothers who were affected by changes in the state’s welfare policy. After leaving PUP, she spent time as the director of the Jobs with Justice affiliate in Philadelphia, before going back to SEIU.

Kati is a queer, cisgendered woman who is the proud mother of Alina and Isaac. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her cats have occasionally gone viral, at the @classwarkitteh.