Kati Sipp

Kati Sipp is the Principal of New Working Majority, a consulting firm. She is also the editor of the blog Hack the Union, which focuses on the intersections of work, organizing and technology. Prior to her work with NWM, she served as the Managing Director for the National Guestworkers Alliance. She founded the Pennsylvania affiliate of the Working Families Party, and spent nine years working for SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, serving as the statewide Political Director and Executive Vice President of the local.

Kati began working with SEIU in California in 1997, where she was an internal organizer, working with classified school employees in the San Jose area. She left California in 1999 and began work for the Philadelphia Unemployment Project (PUP), where she organized mothers who were affected by changes in the state’s welfare policy. After leaving PUP, she was the director of Philadelphia Area Jobs with Justice, where she worked to build a coalition of faith and labor leaders and other community organizations.

She returned to the union in 2003, and worked as the Political Director of SEIU Local 36 (now 32BJ), then worked for the SEIU Pennsylvania State Council in 2004 on the presidential campaign, and in 2013-14 as acting state director. She is on the boards of Put People First! PA and Pennsylvania Voice. Kati is the proud mother of Alina and Isaac. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.