Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee-Alovest. As regular listeners are aware, this podcast is a historical project designed to help us understand patriarchal systems, both in their origins and in their present-day impact.

While undertaking this work, we often find ourselves rooted in the past, even as we gaze towards

the future, toward creating a better, more equitable world for those around us.

And on today's episode, I'm grateful to be sitting down with a guest who not only shares in

this mission, but who embodies its spirit so well, gender economist Kataka Roy.

As the daughter of an immigrant and a refugee, Cotica is driven by a passion to eradicate economic inequality and to champion the rights

of refugees, women, and children. While pursuing this passion, Cotica has written numerous articles

about intersectional gender equity for different

national media platforms and uses storytelling and data stitching to create a common calling

toward achieving gender equity. Today, Cotica is one of LinkedIn's 22 top voices for

gender equity and serves as the CEO of Pipeline, an award-winning company that

uses advanced technology to make intersectional gender parity a reality in our lifetime.

It was such a joy to have her sit down with me and answer my questions in this fascinating

fact-based discussion of gender economics. So please join me in welcoming our guest, Cotica Roy.

Welcome, Cotica Roy.

We're so excited to have you here with us.

And I wonder if we could start by having you

introduce yourself to listeners and tell a little bit of your personal story, where you're from

and some things that inform the lens that you bring to your work. You bet. Thank you so much for

having me today. So I am a gender economist, which what that means for folks who may not know

what a gender economist is, is I look through the economy through the lens of gender and

intersectional gender equity, so gender plus race, ethnicity and age. I'm also the CEO and founder

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