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Kat Murti is a libertarian, feminist, and activist working to make the world a better, freer place one day at a time.

A self-described “creature of the internet,” Kat believes in using the power of social media to spread the ideas of liberty online.

Kat is the co-founder and executive director of Feminists for Liberty, an anti-statist and anti-sexist organization that is uplifting libertarian feminist voices, promoting gender equality without abandoning classically liberal ideas, and changing the narrative about both feminism and libertarianism.

She is also associate director of audience engagement and acquisition at the Cato Institute and a co-leader of the D.C. chapter of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA) as well as a communications consultant for the international organization.

In addition to the PublicSquare.net board, Kat serves on the board of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), an international nonprofit empowering young people to end the global war on drugs, and the advisory board of the White Coat Waste Project, a taxpayer watchdog group focused on ending government funding for animal experimentation.

Kat previously worked at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and is an alumnus of the Koch Internship Program, the Koch Associate Program, and the Koch Summer Fellowship Program.

She was recognized as one of the Red Alert Politics 30 Under 30 in 2018, as well as a 40 under 40 Outstanding BIPOC leaders in Drug Policy in 2021. She has been named an SSDP All-­Star Alum in December 2010, SSDP Spotlighted Alum in January 2012, an A. Kathryn Parker Outstanding Alumnus in Service to SSDP in March 2016, and LOLA of the Month in May 2016 and August 2020.

Kat grew up between North Texas and South India, earned a political science degree at the University of California at Berkeley.