Kate Kizer
Kate Kizer
About
- Kate Kizer is the Policy Director at Win Without War, and a Steering Committee Member of the Forum on the Arms Trade. As Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Yemen Peace Project, she was a key leader of the campaign to end US military support for the Saudi intervention in Yemen. As the US Advocacy Officer at the Project on Middle East Democracy, Kizer led engagement with the legislative and executive branches. As Digital Campaigner for Demand Progress, Kizer mobilized citizens to influence US surveillance reform efforts in Congress.
- Kizer was also Deputy Research Director for Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Kizer has expertise in US foreign policy in the Middle East, the post-9/11 use of military force, counterterrorism strategy, arms export policy, and democracy promotion. Kizer is a columnist at Inkstick Media and has been published in the Intercept, HuffPost, Washington Post, Reuters, Foreign Policy, and Defense One. Kizer has been listed on Washington Life Magazine's Young & the Guest List since 2019. Kizer holds an M.A. in Democracy and Governance from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]
'Foreign Policy for the People'
Reps Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee, Kate Kizer (moderator), Rev. Liz Theoharis, Diana Duarte of MADRE, Tobita Chow of Justice is Global, Pam Campos-Palma, Working Families Party.
Open Letter to the Biden Campaign on “Unprepared”
Open Letter to the Biden Campaign on “Unprepared” was released May 12 2020.
":Our demands: The country’s greatest priority at this moment is to beat the COVID-19 crisis, and this requires embracing principles of antiracist solidarity and international cooperation. The Biden campaign can and should beat Trump and the GOP with a message centered on our real public health needs and the progressive values that are required to meet those needs. The “Unprepared” ad must be taken down, and all campaign messaging that fuels anti-Asian racism and China-bashing must end. We refuse to allow the Biden campaign to sacrifice our dignity in the name of political expediency."
Signatories included Kate Kizer, Policy Director, Win Without War.