Morris Katz

Morris Akiba Katz (born May 18, 1999) is an American political strategist known for working for the campaign for Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral election. He was deputy media consultant for John Fetterman's 2022 Senate election campaign, and later worked for Dan Osborn's campaign in the 2024 Senate election in Nebraska. He is a close advisor of Mamdani and Graham Platner, the replaced Democratic candidate in the 2026 Senate election in Maine, and helped create the candidates' viral campaign videos.

Early life and education Morris Katz was born in 1999 in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. Katz was raised in a Jewish family, the son of children's book author Julie Merberg and screenwriter David Bar Katz. His father was a writer on the 2022 T.V. series American Gigolo, a writer and producer on Ray Donovan, and a collaborator with John Leguizamo on film and in theater.

His godfather was actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Career After dropping out of college, he entered the entertainment industry. He worked as a production assistant and wrote plays and screenplays. He wrote a profile of Erica D. Smith, who was running in the Democratic primary for the 2022 United States Senate election in North Carolina. Smith reached out to him after reading the piece and asked for him to join her campaign where he worked on advertisements and videos. founded the political consulting firm Fight Agency.

In 2024, Katz was an advisor for Dan Osborn who was defeated by incumbent Nebraska Republican Senator Deb Fischer, moving to Omaha to do so. Katz was credited by a colleague from this campaign for "creat[ing] the Osborn brand." The campaign outraised and outspent the Republican incumbent candidate Deb Fischer by $6 million, and Osborn lost by just over 6 points. While Katz and Mamdani shared similar backgrounds, Katz was persuaded to join Mamdani by his ideas on economic inequality.

In 2025, Katz identified and approached Graham Platner to run for Senate, as Platner has acknowledged. Katz was looking for "working class" veterans to run against Susan Collins in the 2026 United States Senate election in Maine. He also served as a close advisor to Platner. Until late 2025, Katz lied about his age, representing himself as two years older than he actually was.