Kate Zen

Kate Zen is a first-generation Chinese immigrant, civic technologist, and co-founder of Red Canary Song. A former organizer with the Street Vendor Project, they focus on informal and gig economy worker rights. They’ve contributed to feminist hacktivist and liberatory tech projects, and served on the Community Advisory Board of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. At Columbia and NYU, they organized around domestic violence, youth homelessness, and women’s economic empowerment. Kate co-founded the Chinatown Literacy Project, directed Chinatown Youth Initiatives, and organized with migrant massage workers at Butterfly in Toronto.