Executive Director, Chicago Fair Trade
Katherine Bissell Córdova is Executive Director of Chicago Fair Trade. She has worked for social justice causes for over twenty years, working for human rights, immigrant rights, and worker rights organizations. Katherine served as the Executive Director of ARISE Chicago, an organization that partners with low-wage immigrant workers as they organize for improvements in the workplace, established a field office for GreenWood Alliance in Honduras where she helped establish a social enterprise, served as a human rights defender in Guatemala with Peace Brigades International, and worked at the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors for Torture in Chicago. Katherine is fluent in Spanish.