Katie Unger
Strategic Consultant for Social Justice in Brooklyn, New York
Strategy and Planning / Organizational Change and Development/ Coaching / Training and Capacity Building
Katie Unger is a consultant, facilitator, and coach with a focus on unlocking the capacity of movement leaders and organizations to expand your vision and sharpen your strategic practice, while growing the organizational culture and structures that make change possible.
Through decades of movement work and study, Katie has found that our ability to win change and confront injustice depends on expanding our collective capacity for clear-eyed and rigorous strategy and deep love for our people and communities. Her practice combines strategic planning, facilitation, organizational development, leadership development and coaching to help organizations be more powerful, more equitable, and more human.
Katie brings over 20 years of experience leading effective teams and a lifetime of organizing with groups with varied models around racial justice, economic justice and more.
Katie is an expert in strategic research, having trained and developed curriculum after spending more than a decade leading research and developing powerful campaigns against corporations in the fast-food, laundry and other industries for labor unions, including as Deputy Director of Strategic Affairs for the Change to Win labor federation. She brings those roots in research, power and landscape analysis to understanding organizations and the path to achieving mission.
She served as Deputy Commissioner in the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit in New York City government, developing community-based strategies to achieve and expand universal pre-K, paid sick leave, implement agency-based Voter Registration, and more.
Her current and past clients include Neighborhood Funders Group, Solidarity Center, Texas AFL-CIO, Jobs With Justice, Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, Majority Action, Color Of Change, League of Women Voters, many labor unions, and more. She is an associate consultant with Imagine Us.
Katie is a Board member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and co-Founder of its electoral arm, The Jewish Vote, and a Board member of Met Council on Housing. Katie is a graduate of Yale University and leadership programs including the Art of Transformational Consulting and the Rockwood Leadership Institute.