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Katie Kam

TX

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Katie Kam is a civil and transportation engineer and former urban planner, biologist, and AISD science teacher. She emphasizes budget accountability, transportation, neighborhood schools, arts and culture, public safety, and inclusive planning.

Where Katie Kam stands, based on their records

Supports

Housing Affordability (1 record)

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Track record

Track record — Housing Affordability

Housing Affordability · 1 support

  • Testified to the Austin City Council on March 26, 2026 about the rules for adding housing. She said city fees and a long permit process stop homeowners from adding a unit, and that these problems are separate from the zoning code.

    March 26, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: austincurrent.org · researched September 6, 2026

Track record — General

General · 4 records

  • Worked for the City of Austin as a planner from 1999 to 2006, and again from July to December 2025 as a supervisor in Capital Delivery Services, the office that manages city construction projects. She also collected signatures for the Austin United PAC petition to put the new convention center to a public vote.

    March 29, 2026

    Source: theaustinbulldog.org · researched September 6, 2026

  • Publicly opposed the Texas ban on selling lab-grown meat in a Texas Standard story published September 9, 2025. The ban took effect September 1, 2025. She said she kept working on her lab-grown brisket anyway.

    September 9, 2025

    Source: texasstandard.org · researched September 6, 2026

  • Testified against Texas Senate Bill 261 at a state Senate committee hearing on March 31, 2025. The bill banned the sale of lab-grown meat in Texas for two years. The official witness list names her as a founder from Austin speaking for herself.

    March 31, 2025

    Source: capitol.texas.gov · researched September 6, 2026

  • Founded BioBQ in 2018 and led it as CEO. The Austin company grows beef brisket from cattle cells instead of slaughtering animals. Bloomberg named BioBQ the Texas pick on its September 2022 list of 50 U.S. startups to watch, one for each state.

    September 13, 2022

    Source: austin.culturemap.com · researched September 6, 2026

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Profile last researched September 12, 2026.