Born and raised on the mean streets of Manhattan's Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comedian, blogger, filmmaker and history teacher based in New York. Katie co-founded the political comedy collective Laughing Liberally, and performs around the country at venues including Town Hall, Symphony Space, and The Culture Project in New York, and at NetRoots Nation.
Katie's writing and videos have appeared on the sites including the Huffington Post, Alternet, Open Life, Working Life and Culture Kitchen. Katie also writes a humor column for the journal the Progressive Populist.
Katie's award-winning documentary, La memoria es vaga, about historical memory in Spain, has been screened throughout Spain and the U.S. Katie is currently editing her next documentary, Another Camp is Possible, a documentary about a social justice summer camp, Camp Kinderland, which she, along with her mother and grandmother, attended. The film focuses on The World Peace Olympics, the camp's version of Color Wars.
Katie was called "cute and some what brainy" by the National Review Online.
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