Katie Eder

Executive Director of Future Coalition, Katie oversees the day to day operations of the coalition and helps to craft the long term vision and strategy for the organization. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Katie is currently taking two years off between high school and college to work full time on Future Coalition. She’ll be starting at Stanford University in the fall of 2020. Katie started organizing in the 4th grade when she convinced her class to stage a sit-in in gym to address gender discrimination. Katie then went on to found Kids Tales, an organization dedicated to empowering young people to find their voice through creative writing, which she worked on throughout middle school and high school. Katie is also a co-founder of 50 Miles More, an organization started in 2018 to address the gun violence epidemic in the US.

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