Kat Everett

Katrina "Kat" Hobbs Everett, M.Ed., is a constructive deconstructionist, anti-racist, educator, entrepreneur, curator, activist, writer, and spoken word artist. She is a Senior-level Executive with over 22 years of refined experience in the human/social services field working in a variety of professional settings and levels including grassroots organizations, city, state, and federal entities, public k-12 schools, public and private higher education institutions. Kat has 10 years of diversity, equity, inclusion(DEI) education experience, and extensive community engagement cultivating relationship development and working with cross-sector teams locally, nationally, and globally. Kat is the Co-Founder of Power of Self-Education (POSE) Inc. a community engagement & advocacy nonprofit whose mission is "to inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen communities". She is also the founder and curator of COCO Brown, a cultural community healing center and co-working space that uses the mediums of art, music, storytelling, and movement to strengthen community relationships and improve social and economic equity. During the pandemic, Kat founded and launched Everetts Enterprise LLC, a state-certified black-owned /woman owned business enterprise, through which she provides large- and small-scale consulting, coaching, and facilitation services to individuals, groups, and businesses to assist with transformative culture shifting in an effort to foster places of belonging. Kat is also an Adjunct Professor for the Social Justice program at Merrimack College. Her personal mission is to “Constantly Cultivate Community”.