Kate Khatib

Kate is a co-founder and worker-owner of Red Emma’s, a cooperatively-owned restaurant and bookstore in Baltimore that helped to catalyze a city-wide ecosystem of worker-owned businesses over the last decade. In 2015, she helped to found the Seed Commons cooperative and its Baltimore peer, the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy, and in 2018, became co-director of the Seed Commons network, with Brendan Martin. She currently serves as BRED’s Executive Director and a member of the staff collective. She received her PhD from The Johns Hopkins University, her MPhil and MA from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and her BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Bolton Hill with her partner, her son, a border collie, and three bad cats.