Keya Chatterjee
Keya Chatterjee is an author and activist for social justice. She is one of the four co-founders, and the Executive Director of Free DC, a renewed movement to protect Home Rule and win lasting dignity for the people of DC. She is also a co-founder of Freedom Trainers, a collective of trainers, a loose network of trainers teaching folks about these powerful tools of collective noncompliance and mass noncooperation. Keya started her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco. She served as a Presidential Management Fellow at NASA, in the Science Mission Directorate for four years. After NASA, Keya worked at USAID and WWF as a Climate Change specialist and then spent nearly a decade as Executive Director of US Climate Action Network, where her tenure was bookended by the network’s efforts to secure the Paris Climate Agreement and pass the Inflation Reduction Act. Keya was elected twice as a hyperlocal neighborhood commissioner in DC, and currently serves on the boards of Sunrise Movement and Evergreen Action. She is the author of works of both fiction and nonfiction, including her 2025 romance novel about taking down fascism, The Revolution Will Not Be Rated G.
