Kate Khatib

Kate is an Arab-American organizer and movement strategist based in Baltimore, Maryland. Two decades ago, she co-founded Red Emma’s, a worker-owned restaurant and bookstore in Baltimore that helped to catalyze a city-wide ecosystem of worker-owned businesses and cooperative enterprises. In 2015, she helped to found the Seed Commons cooperative and its Baltimore peer, the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy, and in 2018, became co-director of the Seed Commons cooperative alongside Brendan Martin. Among other things, Kate is a seasoned chef who still works on the kitchen team at Red Emma’s on the weekends, and holds a PhD in Intellectual History from The Johns Hopkins University, two Masters degrees from The University of Amsterdam, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.