Kate Krauss

"It's a big world, and I really like it." -- George Saunders

I began as an AIDS activist in San Francisco at the height of the epidemic, organizing a multiracial, statewide coalition of policy wonks, government officials, and people living with AIDS. Together, we won free AIDS meds for thousands of sick people who couldn't afford them--establishing a funding model that has paid for the medications of people with AIDS with no other option for two decades.

Later, I organized a series of international campaigns that freed two dozen human rights activists in prison in China and made front-page news in the New York Times. In the process, I established a coalition of US, Chinese, and Taiwanese health, human rights, and LGBT organizations; most had never worked together before.

I'm a media strategist with clips in outlets ranging from the AFP to WIRED to The Daily Monitor in Kampala. I've placed four front-page stories in the New York Times, and wrote opinion pieces on China in the Times and the Washington Post. I organized press conferences in Swaziland, South Africa, Mexico, and Canada.

These days, I focus on digital rights, privacy, and anonymity, because without privacy, there can be no democracy. My strength is strategy, whether I'm pitching a piece to the BBC or finding a way to persuade CloudFlare to unblock Tor users.

I'm learning Chinese, French, and Python 3 (the easiest programming language I could find) and I really love them all. And I'm taking a fun class on decisionmaking in the European Union.

What are you working on? Ping me: