Kate Werning, organizing director of CTZNWELL, practices the critical connection of personal well-being work with a deep commitment to collective liberation through social change. She trained as a Hatha yoga teacher and integrates those tools into her organizing to work from the heart, as well as uplifting interdependence and social justice in her yoga classes at Third Root Community Health Center in Brooklyn, New York, and in her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Having learned organizing with youth and the immigrant rights movement, Kate Werning helped launch the Ayni Institute and Cosecha, and she serves as a lead trainer with Momentum and an advisory board member of OmTownYogis. She also has trained with Oppression in the Soma; Off the Mat, Into the World; Midwest Academy; James Lawson; and the Relational Center.