About
Kat Janowicz (Yah-NOH-vich) is a leader and strategist in transportation, energy, technology, and global trade. With three decades of experience, she has built strategic partnerships and engaged stakeholders across complex projects and initiatives in California and abroad.
As CEO of 3COTECH, Inc., she has advised public and private clients, including port authorities, freight operators, and community organizations, on clean technology and infrastructure, technology evaluation, strengthening competitiveness, and navigating risk in some of the most complex freight corridors in the world. She holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA, a combination that keeps one foot in the machine room and one in the boardroom.
She is the author of Chasing Zero, which tells the story of how the LA–Long Beach ports became the world's cleanest, and what it cost, required, and revealed about the future of supply chains, innovation, and the workforce that powers it all. She serves on several boards and coalitions advancing cross-sector collaboration across industries and regions.
Her second book, Why Risk My Life, follows her grandfather, Michał Janowicz, through five regime changes in Wilno, Nazi forced labor, a Soviet gulag, and his search for family and a homeland that no longer existed as he knew it.
Follow Kat Janowicz at @katjanowicz on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Threads, Amazon, and Goodreads.
Featured Work
"Chasing Zero: The story of how the busiest US ports cut pollution, reshaped industries, and influenced geopolitics in the ongoing quest for clean air"
The landmark 2002 ruling in a lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles and one of its terminal operators sent shock waves through global supply chains. To stay in business and continue to compete on the world stage, the LA and Long Beach ports had to start listening to the community and find common ground for reducing port-related air pollution. Ultimately, the ports underwent nothing short of an environmental reformation. Technical documents, legislative records, and news reports offer bits and pieces of this story, but the full account has never been told until now.
Drawing on more than two decades of experience in the energy, transportation, and technology sectors, Kat Janowicz digs deep to chronicle the transformation of the LA-Long Beach ports as a springboard for exploring the larger quest for an emission-free world: the choices, the costs, and the challenges. Janowicz reviewed thousands of documents, watched hundreds of hours of video recordings, and spoke to more than 150 people to tell this story and decode its complexities. Those who shared their knowledge, insights, and personal stories include current and former port executives and staff, elected and appointed officials, private industry leaders, scientists, educators, and everyday people who live and work in Southern California.
Captivating, informative, and entertaining, Chasing Zero—published by Rare Bird—is a primer for everyone from ordinary people to high-level decision-makers seeking to better understand the global trade, supply chain, technology, energy, and environmental issues and policies that affect us all. While painting a vivid portrait of the global challenges we face, the book sheds light on the exciting opportunities for current and future generations willing to tackle them.
