Celia Kutz lives in Minneapolis, MN where she is happy to be working as a trainer, facilitator and community organizer. She has been facilitating groups from a young age, organizing in her small rural hometown, on college campuses and in activist groups across the country. She enjoys being an organizer and trainer and finds one of her greatest strengths is her ability to listen attentively, reflect compassionately and invite critical awareness. She is an advocate of non-violent communication, loves using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques in her trainings and is exploring the world of Process-Oriented Psychology and World Work.

She has trained many collectives across the country on group conflict,consensus decision making and facilitation, strategic non-violent direct action and diversity work. Celia has taught Sustainable Activism in the Experimental College of the Twin Cities, organized against the 2008 Republican National Convention and is active in supporting local political prisoners and defending against the conviction of other political organizers. She works with residents, business owners and other community members in South Minneapolis working to protect residents rights and locally owned, minority led institutions from the adverse affects of gentrification.

Celia has an undergraduate degree from McGill University in Anthropology with a focus on Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the United States. She is inspired by Myles Horton and Emma Goldman and is a strong believer that we all have the creativity, intelligence and capacity to tackle our toughest questions - we just need the space to ask.

E-mail her at midnighthistle@gmail.com

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