Real Experience • Real Plans • Ready to Lead
By now you know my vision for UCATS. I’ve met you on my rounds and I’ve heard your concerns about the future of our union. Rest assured that with me as your union president, we will become a more united network of protection, resources, and support.
Here are a few more details of my experiences and accomplishments that guarantee I can make our vision a reality.
Higher Education
I am a proud 2011 masters alum of NYU’s Tisch Arts & Public Policy program. The Tisch program brings arts and politics together in the study and implementation of activism. Labor organizing = activism.
Lived Experience
I’ve lived through distressing eras that launched me into political action. Politicized issues that hit close to home were the AIDS epidemic, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Domestic Partner legislation, Equal Marriage laws, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the attacks on gender-non-confirming and Trans lives. These assaults on me and my loved ones have persisted throughout my entire adult life. But they have not worn me out. My activist community and I are strong, savvy, and resilient because of it.
UCATS Local 3882 Contract Negotiations
I was the lone insistent voice that leveraged our hard work and dedication during the pandemic shut down, which got us the 5.5% wage increase in 2023.
NYSUT & Albany
Through my work as an adviser on the NYSUT Health & Safety Advisory Council, our parent union, NYSUT, identified me as an experienced and capable leader. From their competitive application process, I was the only UCATS steward chosen for the Leadership Institute in Albany. As a graduate of the program, I have the closest possible connection to New York’s education labor leaders in Albany. Yet, all the work doesn’t happen in Albany. It starts and develops here at NYU, where I put in time and attention meeting with members and addressing our workplace concerns.
Beyond NYU & Labor Organizing
My experience runs the gamut. I’ve served as a president of an arts organization and an executive director of a statewide nonprofit. As part of that work, I visited members statewide, served grant decision panels, developed contact management systems, surveyed membership and analyzed those results decision-making and strategizing. As a consultant, I was entrusted to lead the process of clarifying the mission, vision, and values of nonprofit organizations. I curated festivals and events with dozens of performance acts and celebrity talent. I’ve produced high-end media for Fortune 500 companies like Pfizer and American Express. (See full career history on LinkedIn.)
My plan leverages all of my experience to transform our union into a strong, unified, and supportive community. You deserve a union president, officers, union stewards, and organizers who focus on you and address your issues, even the issues that fall outside of the contract.
With union pride, it is my honor to serve. As your union president, I will bring UCATS into a new and powerful era.
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Kate Conroy for UCATS President
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