Cat Salonek Schladt (she/her) is a South Minneapolis organizer for people power. 

At work, Cat serves as Executive Director of Tending the Soil, an alignment of five power-building non-profits and labor organizations led by working class, BIPOC community leaders with a long history of effective and equitable organizing. Prior to her current role, Cat made good trouble with Line 3 resistance, Occupy Homes, OutFront Minnesota, and CWA. 

In community, Cat co-created the Minneapolis Fire Squad, a community rapid-response network that operated during the George Floyd uprising in 2020, and trained more than 4,000 individuals to participate in non-violent direct action during Operation Metro Surge in 2026. She loves bonfires, board games, and Lake Nokomis.

A Twin Cities resident by birth and by choice, Cat lives in the Central neighborhood with her wife and their three children.