Kat Lundie

Kat works to strengthen NILC’s capacity to engage in coalitions and support state and local organizations and campaigns in pro-immigrant advocacy. She recognizes that the best way to create movement change is to center community advocates, their priorities, and their vision for the future. She supports state campaigns to expand health care eligibility and access to immigrant and mixed-status families, educates the field on immigrant eligibility for public benefits, and seeks out new partnerships to create a bigger impact. She takes great joy in connecting with local-level organizations and projects that challenge her to be creative and think outside the box.

Kat earned an MPP in Public Policy from George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School and a BA in American History from Christopher Newport University. Kat is also the longest-serving and lead bargaining committee member of the NILC Workers’ Union. As a Filipino American, her passion for immigrant rights stems from her family’s experiences and her own experience navigating public benefits programs.

Kat considers herself a native of Hampton Roads, Virginia, but moved frequently as a child while living in a military household. When she is not at work, you can find her sketching portraits, aimlessly roaming open-world video games, or teaching her nieces and nephew how to engineer top-tier blanket forts.