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Kat Murti

Kat Murti is a libertarian, feminist, and activist, dedicated to making the world a better, freer place, one day at a time. She joined Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the largest national network of young people working to end the War on Drugs, at the University of California at Berkeley in 2009. After serving in several different roles, including 11 years as an appointed director on SSDP’s youth-led board of directors, she became executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy in 2023. Outside of SSDP, Kat is the co-founder and executive director of Feminists for Liberty, an anti-statist and anti-sexist organization that is uplifting libertarian feminist voices, promoting gender equality without abandoning classically liberal ideas, and changing the narrative about both feminism and libertarianism. She is also one of the founding members of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA), an international network of libertarian women, and served as the D.C. chapter leader for over a decade. Kat first became involved with drug policy in 2007 when she joined the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of NORML. She served as field director of the Proposition 19 campaign to legalize adult recreational cannabis in California in 2010 (she appears extensively in the award-winning independent film, “American Pot Story: Oaksterdam“), and has worked at the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, and, briefly, in cannabis business law. Kat is a former journalist – one highlight includes a special project working in conjunction with Wikileaks at The Hindu, India’s largest English-language newspaper at the time – who then went on to manage digital communications and strategy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, followed by the Cato Institute. Kat has earned many awards over the course of her career, including being recognized as one of the Red Alert Politics 30 Under 30 in 2018, and one of the 40 under 40 Outstanding BIPOC Leaders in Drug Policy in 2021. Kat earned her B.A. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a graduate of Oaksterdam University. She grew up between North Texas and South India, and now lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and two children.

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