Cat Brooks is an award winning actress and playwright. In her role as an artivist, she is also the host of Law and Disorder on KPFA and resident playwright and actress with The Lower Bottom Playaz in Oakland and 3 Girls Theater in San Francisco. As an organizer, she played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ways our communities are policed and incarcerated. She is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Executive Director of the Justice Teams Network. Cat was also the runner-up in Oakland’s 2018 mayoral election, facing incumbent Libby Schaaf.
2025 Inside Ideas
Speaker – Art as Radical Practice: Black Women’s Creative Expression as Social Change
