MEET OUR 2021 EXPO/FREE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS Catoya Roberts
Catoya is one of the Co-Founders of FREE. FREE is a group of Formerly Incarcerated women working to create systemic change to the incarceration system in the State of Wisconsin. FREE is the women’s division of EXPO (Ex- incarcerated People Organizing). She is a trainer and facilitator. The main focus of her work has been in the criminal justice legal system, voting rights/civic engagement, youth organizing, public health (health equity), and race equity. Catoya was born and raised in Milwaukee,WI. She receivedherBachelor’s Degree at Hampton University. Her faith and love for people led her into the world of organizing, and she continued doing this work for more than ten years. Catoya is a licensed and ordained Minister at New Covenant Baptist Church in Milwaukee.
Catoya recently transitioned jobs and is now the National Director of Movement Building at the Children’s Defense Fund. Previously she was the Deputy Director of Campaigns and Strategy at the Advancement Project National Office. In 2019 she was appointed by Governor Tony Evers to the Public Health Council of the State of Wisconsin, where she’s been able to help lead the council in Racial Equity training. Currently, she is in her last year of the Robert Wood Johnson’s Culture of Health Leader Fellowship.
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