Katrina Phillips

Katrina Phillips is an American actress and activist. She has served as the Chair of Sonoma County, California's Human Rights Commission since July 2022.{{cite web|url=https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/human-resources/boards-commissions-and-committees/commission-on-human-rights/about-us/roster-of-commissioners|title=Commission on Human Rights {{!}} Roster of Commissioners|website=SonomaCounty.ca.gov|access-date=March 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301071656/https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/human-resources/boards-commissions-and-committees/commission-on-human-rights/about-us/roster-of-commissioners|archive-date=March 1, 2024|url-status=live}} She has also worked as a counselor for at-risk youth at the Los Angeles LGBT Center,{{cite web|url=https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/human-resources/boards-commissions-and-committees/commission-on-human-rights/about-us/roster-of-commissioners/katrina-phillips|title=Katrina Phillips|website=SonomaCounty.ca.gov|access-date=March 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301072528/https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/human-resources/boards-commissions-and-committees/commission-on-human-rights/about-us/roster-of-commissioners/katrina-phillips|archive-date=March 1, 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-civil-and-gay-rights-advocates-decry-supreme-court-same-sex-r/|title=Sonoma County civil and gay rights advocates decry Supreme Court same-sex ruling they say will pave the way for more discrimination|last=Espinoza|first=Martin|date=June 30, 2023|website=The Press Democrat|access-date=March 1, 2024}} and began volunteering with Sonoma & Napa Pet Rescue and Reunification following the Tubbs Fire in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-quest-to-save-feline-fire-refugees-Rescuers-12955509.php|title=The quest to save feline fire refugees: Rescuers stalk burned-out Santa Rosa zone|last=Fagan|first=Kevin|date=May 31, 2018|website=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=March 1, 2024}}

Education

Phillips graduated from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She was a member of the university's Theatre School, and performed in the school's stage production The Yellow Boat in 1996.{{cite web|url=https://theatre.depaul.edu/on-stage/Pages/production-details.aspx?dpusearchbyid=224|title=The Yellow Boat|website=Theatre.DePaul.edu|publisher=The Theatre School at DePaul University|access-date=March 1, 2024}}

Partial filmography

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1999

| Payback

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| {{cite book|last=Willis|first=John A.|author-link=John A. Willis|editor-last=Monush|editor-first=Barry|date=2000|title=Screen World 2000 Film Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXCinWTJVacC&pg=PA13|volume=51|page=13|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=1-55783-431-8}}

1999

| But I'm a Cheerleader

| Jan

| {{cite news|last=Axmaker|first=Sean|date=September 29, 2000|title=New film lampoons homophobia hysteria in an inoffensive way|url=https://newspapers.com/article/the-berkshire-eagle/142427686/|newspaper=The Berkshire Eagle|location=Pittsfield, Massachusetts|page=D2|access-date=March 1, 2024}}{{cite book|last=Willis|first=John A.|author-link=John A. Willis|editor-last=Monush|editor-first=Barry|date=2001|title=Screen World 2001 Film Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0G3hog_c2kC&pg=PA83|volume=52|page=83|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=1-55783-479-2}}