Katy Rubin is founder and former Executive Director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, a nonprofit organization that partners with communities facing discrimination to spark transformative action. Since 2011, TONYC has created theater troupes with various local communities and presents free, interactive public performances each year for thousands of New Yorkers. TONYC developed and popularized the practice of Legislative Theater in the United States, bringing together elected officials, advocates, service providers and communities experiencing structural racism and economic injustice, towards creative policy change. Katy trained with creator of Theater of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal, in Brazil, and has facilitated Theatre of the Oppressed projects with activists and artists internationally and across the US over the past decade. She holds a BFA in Acting from the Boston University School of Theater and is an alum of Coro Leadership New York.