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  Tovo, Kathie
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AffiliationDemocratic  
  2014-01-01  
 
NameKathie Tovo
AddressP.O. Box 300655
Austin, Texas 78703, United States
Emailinfo@kathieforaustin.com
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InfoKathie Tovo was elected to the Austin City Council on June 18, 2011. As a Council Member she has championed affordability initiatives, including leading the Council in adopting resolutions for property tax reform, advocating for reasonable utility rates and consumer protections, and leading initiatives for expanding the Women and Children’s Shelter and other affordable housing opportunities.

She serves on the Joint Subcommittee of the City of Austin, AISD, and Travis County, and as a Council Member and as a community member she has helped develop strategies for keeping neighborhood schools open and families with children within the central city. She is committed to ensuring that city policies and practices respond to the needs of Austin’s underserved and has led efforts to create new senior meals programs, youth programs, and parks and open spaces.

Prior to taking office, she taught writing and interdisciplinary studies to students at The University of Texas and the University of Puerto Rico and worked at Humanities Texas, the state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She holds a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. with honors from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

As former president of the Bouldin Creek Neighborhood Association and vice president of the Austin Neighborhoods Council, Tovo has a long history of neighborhood advocacy and served on many city and school district boards and task forces, including the Planning Commission, the CreateAustin task force, the Families and Children Task Force, and AISD’s Community Committee on Neighborhoods and Schools.

Her Council service includes appointments to the Audit and Finance Subcommittee; the Minority and Women Business Enterprise and Small Business Council Subcommittee; the Joint Subcommittee of the City of Austin, AISD, and Travis County; Community Action Network; the Capital Area Council of Governments; and the Police Retirement Board. She participates regularly in the Council’s Public Health and Human Services Subcommittee and the Psychiatric Stakeholders Committee. She also served on the Economic Incentives Work Group, which revised the incentives process to require that companies seeking incentives be required to provide domestic partner benefits, living wages, and other important provisions.

Tovo was recognized by the Workers Defense Fund in 2012 as a “Champion for Working Families” and received the 2012 Azteca Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Advocate of Inclusion from the U.S. Hispanic Contractors Association.

She serves on the advisory board of the Settlement Home for Children and actively participates in the Austin chapter of Families with Children from China. Tovo is a member of St. John’s United Methodist Church and the Reconciling Ministries Network, which is an organization working for full participation of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities within the Methodist Church. She is married to Tom Hurt, founder and principal of Hurt Architecture, and they live in a 100-year-old house just north of UT. Their seven- and eight-year-old daughters attend AISD’s Bryker Woods Elementary.

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