Cathy Albisa

Cathy Albisa is the Vice President of Institutional and Sectoral Change, leading Race Forward’s work with government and government institutions at the federal, regional, and local levels across sectors. She also serves on the Human Rights Commission in New York City and has published widely on economic and social rights, racial and gender justice, and human rights. Cathy is the co-founder and former Executive Director of Partners for Dignity & Rights (formerly NESRI), a social movement organization that supports community groups across the country in their campaigns for structural change. She has also been a Director at the Center for Economic and Social Rights, an Associate Director at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, a Co-director at the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY Law School, and a Constitutional Rights Litigator at the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights.