Katherine Hahn loves her lifelong Houston home, culturally rich but stifled by industrial pollution and corporate greed. Built off the backs of venerable rivers and communities of color, the Bayou City and its people contend with record-breaking hurricanes, floods, and maltreatment as financial and political institutions abandon homes and people. With a master’s degree in occupational therapy, Katherine is trained in breaking down barriers to meaningful existence and addressing deep-seated problems at their root – and for people and climate that means fighting back the financing behind environmental injustice. Likewise educated in identifying the distinct value of groups and communities, she believes in the Gulf South not only as an epicenter of global injustice, but even more so as a herald for systemic change; because when people are in community, oppressors lose their power.

Katherine is also Deputy Animator of Laudato Si' Texas and an ESL teacher for her Catholic parish.