Kat Gilje

Kathryn Gilje (Kat), she/her, is a cousin, sweets, and daughter. She is an integrated capital advisor, organizer, and somatic practitioner–in–training. Kat served as Executive Director of Ceres Trust for ten years, a private foundation which redistributed all assets in support of healthy and resilient farms, forests and communities; and the ecosystems upon which we all depend. She was co–chair of the Justice Funders governance committee; the California Foodshed Funders; the Integrated Rural Strategies Group of the Neighborhood Funders Group; and the San Joaquin Valley Funders Collaborative; and served on the Steering Committee of the Health and Environmental Funders Network. She served as funder representative to the Building Equity and Alignment for Environmental Justice Fund, and co–stewarded the Regenerative Economies Organizing Collaborative with climate justice movement leaders. Trained in agronomy in Minnesota and Cuba; in community organizing and facilitation by Voices for Racial Justice/Organizing Apprenticeship Project and Farm Labor Organizing Committee, and in non–profit finance and management by Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training, and others, Kathryn now focuses on organizing money for movements, and finance for repair, land justice, and regenerative economies. Kathryn is active in her lay–led faith community, with training from the Gamaliel Network and the Interfaith Chaplaincy Institute. She previously was a fellow at the Just Economy Institute; co–director of Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN); co–director of Centro Campesino; and senior associate at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Community Water Center and the Advisory Circle of Feed Black Futures.