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Katya Urban

Los Angeles,USA

Summary

Passionate and committed community organizer and artist with a background in installation art, urban gardening, and mutual aid organizing. Experienced in grassroots campaigns, sound production, and interdisciplinary research. Good at working with diverse groups, facilitating programming, and building transformative community spaces.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Member & Community Organizer

Los Angeles Tenants Union
Los Angeles, CA
09.2024 - Current
  • Attends weekly solidarity and planning meetings at Highland Park chapter to provide support for people facing evictions and strengthen the organization through direct actions and collaborations
  • Facilitates and documents meetings and direct actions

Co-Producer

Voidwave, KCHUNG/dublab
Los Angeles, CA
10.2022 - Current
  • Helps to research and edit quarterly radio shows, featuring underrepresented sound artists and musicians. Often involving outreach and interviewing artists and collaborating with other producers

Co-Organizer

YiPPS - SELA
Joshua Tree, CA
01.2022 - Current
  • Helps to organize annual DIY festival taking place in Joshua Tree
  • Mainly focusing on programming, outreach, and building structures on the land. Assisted in building a stage, shading and other small wooden structures.

Artist & Researcher

Epitaph, FestivALT
Krakow, Poland
03.2025 - 06.2025
  • Researching the life of the late Jewish-Polish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka to create a sound/performance piece, memorializing her life and legacy.
  • Funded by PKP research grant at USC

Artist & Producer

Emotion House
04.2022 - 05.2025
  • Directed and produced an art installation at the USC Peace Garden, building a phone booth from wood and reprogramming a phone that anyone can walk into and use to express emotions.
  • Collaborated with the USC Peace Garden on sustainable practices, and with the organization Painted Brain on mental initiatives. Funded by Arts in Action and the Arts & Climate Collective

Canvasser and Electoral Leader

Ground Game LA
Los Angeles, CA
09.2024 - 12.2024
  • Door-knocking around Northeast LA to inform voters about the district attorney race.
  • Attended the electoral leader training program, learning how to lead and train peers for future campaigns.

Live Sound & Event Organizer

Feels Like Floating
Los Angeles, CA
08.2023 - 01.2024
  • Helped organize and put on live concerts and hikes in natural landscapes around Los Angeles

Art Library Intern

Getty Marrow Internship - Otis College of Art & Design
Los Angeles, CA
06.2022 - 08.2022
  • Helped with organizing and archiving in the special collections department
  • Reorganized the digital archive, scanning and laying out files in Excel

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Visual and Performing Arts Studies

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
05.2024

Dramatic Arts Diploma -

Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of the Arts
New York, NY
06.2019

Skills

  • Mutual-aid organizing
  • Community outreach and facilitation
  • Teaching and working with kids
  • Direct action coordination
  • Urban gardening
  • Canvassing
  • Grant writing and research
  • Film and sound editing (Premiere, Avid, Logic)
  • Photography and painting
  • Archival work
  • Radio broadcasting
  • Festival organizing
  • Adobe and Google Suite
  • Power tool use and woodworking

LANGUAGES

  • Russian (Proficient)
  • Spanish (Basic)

Accomplishments

  • Arts in Action Annual Grant, University of Southern California, 2024
  • Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Southern California, 2023
  • Arts and Climate Collective Award Grantee, University of Southern California, 2022

Timeline

Artist & Researcher

Epitaph, FestivALT
03.2025 - 06.2025

Member & Community Organizer

Los Angeles Tenants Union
09.2024 - Current

Canvasser and Electoral Leader

Ground Game LA
09.2024 - 12.2024

Live Sound & Event Organizer

Feels Like Floating
08.2023 - 01.2024

Co-Producer

Voidwave, KCHUNG/dublab
10.2022 - Current

Art Library Intern

Getty Marrow Internship - Otis College of Art & Design
06.2022 - 08.2022

Artist & Producer

Emotion House
04.2022 - 05.2025

Co-Organizer

YiPPS - SELA
01.2022 - Current

Bachelor of Arts - Visual and Performing Arts Studies

University of Southern California

Dramatic Arts Diploma -

Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of the Arts

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