Hi.
I’m Kate Krauss, a public affairs and communications strategist who has conceived and led large-scale, successful campaigns to promote online privacy, access to healthcare, and human rights. I’ve been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, WIRED, and Technically Philly. Previously, I was an HIV research advocate and organizer.
My superpowers
Strategy
I partnered with a software engineer to lead a campaign at the Tor Project that convinced CloudFlare to stop blocking millions of Tor users from accessing major websites.
I organized and led an international campaign of NGOs that freed Chinese human rights defenders jailed in Beijing and made the front page of The New York Times.
Communications
I’ve pubished my opinion pieces in The New York Times, Washington Post, and WIRED, among other outlets.
As communications strategist, I’ve placed four different front page articles in The New York Times and secured hundreds of other high-profile media placements.
Public Speaking
I’ve delivered slightly awkward but popular talks to audiences as large as 3,000 people. The moderator for my talk at CCC in Germany called my talk on government surveillance of Chinese citizens “chilling.”
About me
Kate Krauss
Public Policy and Media Strategist
I began as an AIDS activist in San Francisco at the height of the epidemic, organizing a multiracial, statewide coalition of policy wonks, government officials, and people living with AIDS. Together, we won free AIDS meds for thousands of sick people who couldn’t afford them–creating a funding model that has paid for the medications of people with AIDS with no other option for two decades.
Later, I organized a series of international campaigns that freed two dozen human rights activists in prison in China and made front-page news in the New York Times. In the process, I established a coalition of US, Chinese, and Taiwanese health, human rights, and LGBT organizations; most had never worked together before.
I’m a media strategist with clips in outlets ranging from the AFP to WIRED to The Daily Monitor in Kampala. I’ve placed four front-page stories in the New York Times, and wrote opinion pieces on China in the Times and the Washington Post. I organized press conferences in Swaziland, South Africa, Mexico, and Canada.
These days, I focus on digital rights, privacy, and anonymity, because without privacy, there can be no democracy. My strength is strategy, whether I’m pitching a piece to the BBC or finding a way to persuade CloudFlare to unblock Tor users.
I’m learning French and enrolled in a great class on decisionmaking in the European Union. Oh, and I moderate an influential email list called Liberation Tech.
What are you working on? Ping me: [email protected]
Projects (coming soon)
Communications
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Strategy
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Contacts
Address
USA