Let Me Introduce Myself
Katrina deVille is a Transgender Democratic Socialist running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she attended the University of Wisconsin Green Bay for a Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Studies before focusing on her career as a bandleader and musician. She's known far and wide throughout the music community, being the leader and front person of her successful band, Katrina deVille and The Nobody Famous. To date, she has performed in 30 states and 7 countries, has played with such notables as Jackson Brown, Pat MacDonald, Earl Slick, Charlie Sexton, Rosie Flores, and Marky Ramone, and prides herself in being able to profoundly connect with people and audiences anywhere she goes. Also a small business owner, she’s run her own successful custom auto shop for the past 20 years.
After decades of internal struggle, she began transitioning in September 2024. While this journey has brought immeasurable happiness, it has opened her eyes to the unconscionable degree of hate and bigotry in this country. The past year’s steady erosion of Constitutional rights for the trans community has been a window of reality for her to see this country through the lens of the marginalized and oppressed. She's showing up to fight for human rights, because it has become plainly obvious that others haven’t been and aren’t going to. None of us are equal until ALL of us are equal.
This is Kat's first time running for office. She is an outsider, a profoundly important advantage right now, as the establishment and typical candidates continually fail us. She runs for positive progressive change, including Medicare For All, $22 minimum wage, Taxing the Rich, Universal Childcare, Body Autonomy, Affordable Housing, Ending Citizens United, Rebuilding Infrastructure, and Government Accountability, beginning with filing articles of impeachment for Donald Trump on Day 1.
Americans’ lives are on the line and people need a fighter who won’t be bought or intimidated. Katrina deVille is ready to fight with her life to make this country better for all Americans and all Wisconsinites, because that is what this moment and this country demands.
