Kathia Damian

She / Her

Development Manager

Kathia Damian was born and raised in Anaheim, California. After earning her bachelors in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz, she fell in love with the community-oriented nature of small towns and moved to Ashland.

Through her previous experience as News Director at a student-run radio station, Kathia discovered the power of narrative as a tool for transformative justice. This influences her work as Development Manager in communicating the gap in food resources people need and the ones that exist, as well as illustrating the impact that RFU’s work has locally and statewide. Kathia believes in meeting people's material needs while fighting the systems that made inequality possible.

In her free time Kathia likes to be on eight wheels, read (mostly nonfiction), and hang out with friends.