KATHY MITCHELL

Kathy Mitchell has been an organizer and policy advocate in a variety of local and national movements for social change for almost 30 years. While at the Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel, she conducted research and wrote policy reports on access to insurance, claims payment, and insurance pricing models. Following that, she lobbied the Texas Legislature and managed policy research for Consumers Union’s Texas office. In that role, Kathy authored more than a dozen major reports on Texas public policy, and she supervised research on a dozen more. She conducted primary data research on mortgage lending in Texas, policy research on access to government information, legal research on chattel lending, and fieldwork on confined animal feeding operations, among other topics. Over the past decade, Kathy led Consumer Reports’ national digital campaigns, where she built a 1.5 million-person email list and helped policy advocates win countless battles around the country. Now, Kathy comes back to Texas focusing on her passion for criminal justice reform. As TCJC’s Grassroots Sentencing Campaign Coordinator, she is bolstering the organization’s efforts to reduce incarcerated populations, including through local advocacy and base-building. Kathy is also a founding member of the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition, on the Board of EFF-Austin, and a Math Pentathlon Coach at a local elementary school.