Ryan Adams Cinematographer

Cinematographer and Director Ryan K Adams has been making films for over 15 years. Ryan studied classic experimental cinema at The Evergreen State College. Ryan’s collaborations with experimental filmmaker Jon Behrens have shown worldwide and are distributed by Canyon Cinema. As a Cinematographer, Ryan shot several feature length films including, The Oregonian which debuted at Sundance ’11 and is currently distributed by Sundance and is available online (Itunes, Netflix, Hulu). Also William Never Married which won Best Cinematography at the 2010 Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (available on Hulu).

His collaborations with Seattle based Artist, Susie Lee on a series of video portraits called Still Lives has been shown worldwide. Ryan created the video backdrops used in The Fisher Ensemble’s performance of Kocho at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn NY in 2011. Ryan recently shot the documentary, Massacred For Gold directed by Vernon Lott about the massacre of 30 Chinese miners in 1887 in the Oregon Territory. Ryan has several projects in development including directing a feature length narrative called Magda G which features an original opera by composer Garrett Fisher and a feature length documentary called Dance For Joy, overcoming Parkinson’s.

Nitin Baliga, PhD Director of Integrative Biology, Institute for Systems Biology

His lab focuses on reverse engineering biological circuits to understand how cells adapt to new environments. His long-term vision is to use the predictive mathematical gene regulatory network models to drive strategies for engineering designer circuits for a variety of biotechnological applications such as bioenergy, bioremediation and medicine. He believes that complex human problems such as climate change, complex genetic disorders, and infectious disease can be addressed through creative solutions that emerge from dissolving boundaries that separate diverse disciplines including biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and even art.

Dr. Baliga holds an undergraduate degree in microbiology from Ruia College in India and a M.Sc. in marine biotechnology from Goa University in India. He conducted his doctoral studies in microbiology at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his postdoctoral studies in systems biology with Dr. Leroy Hood at ISB. During his predoctoral studies, he won two competitive awards from the government of India: the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology.

He has published numerous high profile scientific papers in premier international journals including Cell, Science, Nature, PNAS, Molecular Systems Biology, and Genome Research. His work has received extensive press-coverage in widely read popular journals including Wired, The Scientist, Genome Technology, and Science.Dr. Baliga’s work has been recognized with several awards including the Dr. Daniel J. Zaffarano lecture in Interdisciplinary science, and the Alvin J. Thompson award for his contributions to high school education. He was also invited to the prestigious 2008 Google SciFoo meeting.

Leah Baltus Editor in Chief, City Arts Magazine

Leah Baltus is editor in chief of City Arts, which publishes a free monthly magazine dedicated to creative life in the Seattle area. Leah hails from Detroit and studied journalism and creative writing at Northwestern University. After graduation she attempted—and failed—to expatriate to Rome, which is how she wound up in Los Angeles at 22, looking for a job. In LA, Leah became the assistant to a literary manager at Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, where she helped people turn books and magazine articles into movies.

Leah moved to Seattle in April 2001 and joined up with an enterprising posse of creative young people who together founded Shunpike, a nonprofit organization that supports arts groups all over Seattle and beyond. Leah was the last unpaid staffer of Shunpike and currently serves on its board. In the fall of 2001, Leah founded RIVET, an independent, nationally circulated indie magazine that she edited until 2008. More than 300 artists, writers and designers nationwide contributed to RIVET during that time.

Leah joined the staff of Pyramid Communications in 2005 and eventually became the firm’s brand and editorial director. At Pyramid she consulted with dozens of nonprofit organizations, including Seattle Art Museum, On the Boards, Intiman Theatre, the Anchorage Museum, The Seattle Foundation and KEXP.

Leah currently resides at the intersection of downtown, Capitol Hill and First Hill with her husband, a large, fluffy cat and an incorrigible French Bulldog named Sumo.

Sarah Bergmann (AR '99) Artist, Creator of Pollinator Pathway

Sarah Bergmann is an artist, systems-thinker and ecological designer. Her recent project, the Pollinator Pathway, is a mile long corridor of pollinator friendly gardens being built in planting strips along Seattle's Columbia Street. The project connects two isolated public green spaces by drawing a line of plant life between them.

Part renegade park and part educational platform, the Pollinator Pathway bridges science, art, urban planning and landscape design. Highly collaborative, it brings together specialists in many fields: scientists, designers, urban planners, city officials, as well as the homeowners and the hundreds of volunteers who help build the gardens.

The Pollinator Pathway has been integrated into classrooms at Seattle University and the University of Washington, and has been spotlighted with an exhibition, “Portal to the Pollinator Pathway,” at the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park.

Bergmann is the 2012 Betty Bowen Award recipient. Her work has been part of recent group exhibitions including All Things Equal, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA (2011); A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck, Punch Gallery, Seattle, WA (2007); and Bashville, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2005). She has been the recipient of grants from The Awesome Foundation (2012); The Northwest Horticulture Society Grant (2011); Neighborhood Matching Grant, City of Seattle (2010); Neighborhood Matching Grant, City of Seattle (2008); and a GAP Grant Recipient Artist Trust, Seattle, WA (2004). In addition she has been nominated for the 2012 The Stranger Genius Awards. To learn more about Bergmann’s project go to:www.pollinatorpathway.com/

Camille A. Brown

Camille A. Brown is interested in that space between dance and theater where interdisciplinary work defies category and takes flight. Informed by her music background as a clarinetist, she creates choreography that utilizes musical composition as storytelling- investigating the silent space within the measure. Ms. Brown is the 2012 recipient of The Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award and a Princess Grace Award.

Carrie Bodle Artist & Lecturer

Carrie Bodle lives and works in Seattle. She is a visual and sound artist who creates immersive installations that explore the relationships between art and science, translating inaudible or invisible phenomena into sensible experiences. Recent works have taken the form of temporary, large-scale public art installations such as Sonifications (2005) which gave a voice to atmospheric research at MIT's Haystack Observatory through 35 loudspeakers distributed across the facade of IM Pei's Green Building in Cambridge, MA.

Artist residencies and fellowships include Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, IBM Watson Collaborative User Experience Group in Cambridge, MA, and 911 Media Arts Center/Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA. She is included on the Washington, Oregon, and City of Seattle Public Artist Rosters and has received grants from the City of Seattle, 4Culture, and MIT Council for the Arts. Bodle has exhibited widely at venues including the Location One Gallery in NYC, the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University, and CoCA Seattle. She is a lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell and the University of Washington School of Art and received her Master's of Science in Visual Studies from the MIT Visual Arts Program and BFA in Art and Technology at The Ohio State University.

Paula Boggs Fortune 500 Veteran, Musician & Humanitarian

Paula Boggs is a seasoned executive, musician and humanitarian. For 10 years, Paula lead the global law department of the Starbucks Coffee Company. She also served on the Starbucks Coffee Company executive management team and was secretary of the Starbucks Foundation. Before Starbucks Paula was an executive for five years in the technology industry (Dell Corporation.)

In 2010 President Obama named her to the 26-member White House Council for Community Solutions. For over 14 years Paula served as a Johns Hopkins University Trustee where she chaired the board audit committee for six years, was a member of the successful Carey Business School Dean Search Committee and now serves on the nominating and academic affairs committees. Paula currently serves on the national board of the American Red Cross and its governance committee and once served on the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. She now serves on the board of privately-held School of Rock LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Sterling Capital. She has held a variety of professional and community leadership roles over the past 25+ years, is an Army veteran, has lived in Germany and Italy, and mentored the CEO of a Seattle-based online start-up company. She also fronts a rock band, and released her first CD in 2010 and is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.

Robert Campbell Artist, Filmmaker and Core Faculty, Cornish College of the Arts Art Department

Robert Campbell’s practice includes video art, digital media, installation, and documentary filmmaking. Since 1984, his single-channel video art work has been exhibited at exhibitions and festivals nationally and internationally in Europe and Japan. His installation and digital media work has been featured at the Henry Art Gallery, 911 Media Arts Center, COCA, Fuel Gallery, SOIL Gallery, Kirkland Art Center, Peeler Art Center, Commencement Art Gallery, MOV-iN Gallery, Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Museum of Northwest Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art, and included in all three recent annual Santa Fe International New Media Festivals.

His video/dance collaborations have been featured at On the Boards, Bumbershoot, Port Angeles Fine Art Center and Lincoln Center. He has produced documentaries in the U.S., Italy, Ukraine, Zambia and South Africa, with excerpts of his work in Africa selected for the Journey to Planet Earth series on the PBS network. He was Artist-in-Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, Centrum, and Burren College of Art. He has taught courses in video art, documentary, animation, digital imaging, experimental film, video for dance and video installation at Cornish College of the Arts since 1991. Campbell received his BFA and MFA degrees from the School of Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts.

Brangien Davis Arts & Culture Editor, Seattle Magazine

Brangien Davis has been the arts & culture editor at Seattle magazine since 2007. Before joining the staff, she spent five years as a freelancer, writing arts and design stories for various publications, including The Seattle Times, ReadyMade and Northwest Home and Garden. During that time she also founded her own literary magazine, Swivel (a labor of love devoted to smart, funny writing by women), and taught writing classes for Seattle Central and Richard Hugo House.

She also served as lead editor on two books, Lauren Weedman's hilarious memoir, A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s Body, and Grist's witty eco-guide, Wake Up and Smell the Planet. Previous to freelancing, she spent five years as a books and film editor at Amazon.com. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the journals Rivet, Swink, Filter and Arcade (which would also make a great law firm).

Robin Held Executive Director, Reelgrrls

Prior to accepting her post as Executive Director of Reel Girls in March 2012, Held served as Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Frye Art Museum, and as former Associate Curator of the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, where she established herself as one of Seattle's leading curators of contemporary art.

Held has published and lectured extensively on contemporary art and performance. In 2009 she was a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow; in 2006 a Goethe-Institute Visiting Scholar, Munich, Germany; and in 2003 a Getty Grant Program Curatorial Research Fellow for Hershmanlandia (2003).

Eirik Johnson Artist and Adjunct Faculty, Cornish College of the Arts Art Department Recipient of 2012 Neddy at Cornish, Open Medium

Seattle-based photographer and mixed-media artist Eirik Johnson has exhibited his work at spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Aperture Foundation in New York. He has received numerous awards including the 2012 Neddy at Cornish Award in Open Medium, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in 2009, the Santa Fe Prize in 2005, and a William J. Fulbright Grant to Peru in 2000.

His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. His second monograph “Sawdust Mountain” was published by Aperture in 2009. A large exhibition of that work was shown at the Henry Art Gallery and is currently traveling nationally. His first book “Borderlands” was published by Twin Palms Press in 2005. Johnson’s editorial work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Metropolis, Dwell, Audobon, GQ, and the Wall Street Journal. Johnson was an Associate Professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA from 2006-2011 and is currently a visiting faculty at both the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts

Oscar Murillo User Experience Architect, Kinect for Windows, Microsoft

Since 2004, Oscar has been designing Natural User Interfaces for Microsoft. These experiences include Windows Speech Recognition, Kinect for XBOX, the Microsoft Home of the Future, and a suite of applications scheduled to be released with Windows 8.

From 2006 to 2009, Oscar was tasked with creating futuristic demonstrations for Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer. These demos were used by Microsoft’s Senior Leadership team to help illustrate the company’s long-term vision for how technology can enable positive global change in healthcare, education, manufacturing, retail, public safety, and productivity.

Before joining Microsoft , Oscar was an Art Director at AT&T, InfoSpace Mobile and Clique.com, where he created mobile and online experiences for Renault, U2, T-Mobile, Orange, Sprint, Cingular, Forbes, People, Cosmopolitan , Wallpaper Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

Oscar has been awarded 8 patents (25 pending), is an active member of IxDA, IDSA, AIGA, SIGCHI and DMI, and served as Design Director for the Computer Human Interaction conference (CHI) from 2008-2011.

Oscar studied Industrial Design at the National University of Colombia, Visual Communications at Taller Cinco, and Multimedia at the Vancouver Film School.

Gifford Pinchot President and co-founder, Bainbridge Graduate Institute

Gifford Pinchot is President and co-founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, which offers an MBA that integrates sustainability and social responsibility with innovation and profit. BGI is one of the first graduate schools to weave sustainability throughout its entire curriculum, so that standard business subjects include ethics, cutting edge sustainability practices, and students’ spiritual perspectives. For the last three years BGI has come on top of Net Impact’s survey of business schools interested in socially responsible business. In August 2009 BGI was awarded the grant of accreditation by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.

Mr. Pinchot is a well-known author, speaker, and consultant on launching businesses and innovation management. He has helped to launch over 700 businesses, several of which are each doing over a billion dollars in sales. He has built four companies and sold three of them, one for a profit of over 100 to one for the original investors.

Since 1983 Mr. Pinchot has also led Pinchot & Company, a firm that helps companies launch new businesses and to design and implement more sustainable business practices. Its client list includes half of the “Fortune 100”, and numerous government and non-profit organizations as well as clients on every continent except Antarctica.

Mr. Pinchot has facilitated numerous sustainability projects. He has licensed two of his inventions. Mr. Pinchot graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1965 with an A.B. degree in economics, then completed his coursework for a Ph.D. in neurophysiology at Johns Hopkins University.

Jarrad Powell Professor, Cornish Music Department

Jarrad Powell‘s compositions have been performed and broadcast internationally and include pieces for voice, gamelan, various western and non–western instruments, electro–acoustic music, music for theater, dance and experimental film. His work also includes numerous cross–cultural collaborations, particularly with Indonesian artists, including the innovative music–theater pieces Visible Religion and Kali.

Since the early ‘80s, Powell has directed the group Gamelan Pacifica, one of the most active and adventurous gamelan ensembles in the U.S. He is also Music Director and composer for Scott/Powell Performance, a contemporary dance company formed in 1994 with noted choreographer Mary Sheldon Scott. Their most recent piece, Geography, was a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project, co–commissioned by the Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents in partnership with On the Boards and the National Performance Network. Recent projects also include music for three short films by artist Robert Campbell: Tilt, Eidolon, and Delta of C16H22O4.

Powell’s work has been commissioned by the Walker Arts Center, Performing Arts Chicago, On the Boards, Music in Motion, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents, the National Performance Network and many individual performers. He has received numerous awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Paul Allen Family Foundation, 4Culture/King County, The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs/Seattle, Artist Trust Foundation and the Creative Capital Foundation. Powell holds a B.A. in English and Religious Studies from Rocky Mountain College, a B.F.A. in Music from Cornish College of the Arts, and an M.A. in Music Composition from Mills College, where he received the Paul M. Henry award for excellence in music composition. His most recent recordings, Natural Selection and Stonehouse Songs are available from Present Sounds Recordings.

Axel Roesler, PhD Associate Professor Interaction Design, University of Washington School of Art

Dr. Axel Roesler is an Associate Professor and chair of the Interaction Design program at the Division of Design at the UW School of Art. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems Engineering with a specialization in Human-centered Design from The Ohio State University. He also holds an M.F.A in Industrial Design from The Ohio State University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and received a Diplom in Industrial Design (equivalent to M.A.) from Burg Giebichenstein, Hochschule für Kunst und Design (University of Art and Design) in Halle, Germany.

His research explores interaction design in high-stakes work settings and the impact of design innovation on practice— recent projects explore new interaction concepts for the future commercial flight deck, real-time documentation during medical emergency response, new concepts for procedural online instructions, and the coordination of multiple perspectives in collaborative work. Industry partners and research collaborators include Boeing, Microsoft, Intel, Group Health, and the Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies at the UW School of Medicine.

Peter Rojcewicz, PhD VP for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Antioch University

Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD is a higher education administrator and teacher, folklorist, field worker, poet, and scholar. He has studied international stories, beliefs, poetry, icons, and manifestations of the mythic imagination for 30 years. Trained in the fields of Folklore and Folk Life, English and American Literature, Jungian depth psychology, and Eastern Philosophy and Religion, Dr. Rojcewicz is a recognized authority on archetypal images and symbols found in the arts, religions, dreams, and mass media. He has taught and lectured on the Great Books of the global humanities, folk fairy tales, myths, folk and popular belief systems, and arts education at John F. Kennedy University, University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern University, The Juilliard School, C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Minnesota Jung Association, Minneapolis, and the American Folklore Society.

Currently Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Antioch University Seattle, Dr. Rojcewicz has served with distinction as Dean of the School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University, as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of Liberal Arts at The Juilliard School, where he was Director of a National Endowment of the Arts Challenge Grant. He took his doctoral degree in Folklore and Folk Life from the University of Pennsylvania where was presented the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching for his design and teaching of “Fairy Tales: Origins, Transmission, Analysis.” A long time member of the Columbia University Seminar on Innovations in Education, he has published and lectures on holistic approaches to education that highlight multiple learning modalities that nurture body/mind/spirit in pursuit of human wholeness. His scholarship has been recognized by H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, who invited him to speak on comparative anomalous folk experience at a private multiday conference at his residence in Dharamsala, India. He has published articles on folk and popular supernatural beliefs, alien abduction, UFO and related non-ordinary experiences. His folklore fieldwork and scholarship on the enigmatic Men in Black is frequently sighted in the social science literature.

An advocate and frequent speaker on arts education, he lectured on the role of imagination and poetic knowing in higher education at the Royal Society of Arts, London. Dr. Rojcewicz has taught teacher-training classes with the award-wining music composer Edward Bilous at the Nashville Center for the Arts. An advocate for the role of the imagination in education, he has lectured widely and published articles on the role of the arts and humanities in the achievement of holistic learning and human wholeness. He has administered and taught programs in the performing and fine arts.

Dr. Rojcewicz studied Children’s Literature with Dr. Jon Cech at Northeastern University. He is the recipient of the Worcester Poetry Prize and the Allen Ginsburg Prize: Honorable Mention. His poetry has appeared in many literary journals and magazines, including Rattapallax, Tendril, Worcester Review, Paterson Literary Review, The Penn Review, Knock and Gargoyle. He is a former Board member of Cauldron Production, New York, a non-profit that organized international arts and culture symposia.

Jentery Sayers, PhD Assistant Professor, English; Director, Maker Lab in the Humanities, University of Victoria

Jentery Sayers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria, where he is also director of the Maker Lab in the Humanities. His research interests include old media, digital humanities, material culture, and computers and composition.

His work has appeared in Kairos; Computational Culture; The Information Society; Collaborative Approaches to the Digital; ProfHacker; Writing and the Digital Generation; Off Paper; Digital Studies; and the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. His current book project, How Text Lost Its Source: Magnetic Recording Cultures, is supported by the University of Michigan Press.

David Shields Author

David Shields is the author of fourteen books, including How Literature Saved My Life (Knopf, 2013), Jeff, One Lonely Guy (Amazon, 2012), and Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Vintage, 2011)—a book that challenges our most basic assumptions about originality, authenticity, and creativity.

GQ called Reality Hunger “the most provocative, brain-rewiring book of 2010; it’s a book that feels at least five years ahead of its time.” Reality Hungerpromises to become the touchstone that artists in all media turn to for inspiration, vindication, and altercation as they struggle to create new forms for the new century. The New York Times says Reality Hunger “urgently and succinctly addresses matters that have been in the air, have relentlessly gathered momentum, and have just been waiting for someone to link them together”; it “heralds what will be the dominant modes in years and decades to come.” Chuck Klosterman said it "might be the most intense, thought-accelerating book of the last ten years."

Angela Rose Sink (TH ’13) Senior, Cornish College of the Arts Theater Department

Angela Rose Sink is a senior at Cornish College of the Arts spending her time creating original work in theatre and dance. She is currently directing and choreographing a physical adaptation of Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare to be presented as her senior culminating project this fall.

Performance credits include Thing #2 & Lesbian Beat Poet in MIRACLE! at the Intiman Theatre, Tina in Bed Snake at Washington Ensemble Theatre, and the Mystery of Edwin Drood and Sam Sheppard's Back Bog Beast Bait at Cornish College of the Arts. As well as numerous performances with the Cornish Dance Department.

Timothy Smith-Stewart (TH ’10) Co-Director of Orion Out Loud and On-Call Counselor at YouthCare

Tim Smith-Stewart is a Seattle based director, writer, and performer of contemporary performance/theater. Recent projects include: The Eternal Glow of Electric Hearts a live sculpture performance piece funded by The Seattle Center Next Fifty, The Council (writer/co-director), a collaboration with choreographer Markeith Wiley and The New Animals, and At Capacity (co-creator/performer) lead by theater artist Rhonda Soikowski.

Tim is also is the co-director/co-creator of Orion Out Loud: Playwrights Festival, a theater and writing project for homeless youth who frequent YouthCare’s Orion Center. Tim holds a BFA in theater from Cornish College of the Arts where he was the recipient of the William Randolph Hearst and Kreielsheimer Scholarships.

Maya Soto (DA ’03) Dancer, Choreographer and Teacher

Maya Soto has been creating, performing and teaching dance in Seattle for over 10 years. She earned her BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts and draws inspiration from integrating a wide variety of movement styles. Maya has co-directed NWDS, a collaborative modern dance company since 2003. Through her long standing collaborative work with NWDS, Soto has co-choreographed, produced and performed in 3 evening length works Americanism (2005), Red Tent (2006) and Junknation (2009) along with numerous shorter dances and a dance film Nocturne (2007).

Her choreography has been seen at On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, Tacoma Museum of Glass and the JFFA Festival. Her work in collaboration with NWDS has received support from Allied Arts Foundation and Walrus Performance Productions. Maya has also danced with LeGendre Performance Group, Big Red Dance Company, Amy O’Neal and SANDSTROMMOVEMENT.

As an educator, Maya has extensive experience working in both public and private sectors. She teaches modern technique to adults at Velocity Dance Center and runs a full time dance program at the Arts and Academics Academy, a public arts high school in White Center. She has worked as a teaching artist for PNB's REACH program, Tacoma School of the Arts, Foster High School and Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. After earning a degree from Cornish College of the Arts, Maya went on to pursue a Washington State Professional Teaching Certificate. She has completed teacher training programs through City University and Seattle University.

Kate Wallich (DA ’10) Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Artist

Kate Wallich is a dance artist based in Seattle, Washington. She creates large scale movement based works with New York based co-director Lavinia Vago, multi-instrumentalist sound designer Lena Simon, and cinematographer Jacob Rosen under the name The YC. Their work has been most notably presented at On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, Northwest Dance Project, Reverb Dance Festival NY, Bumbershoot, City Arts Festival, and The Seattle International Dance Festival.

Kate received her training from Interlochen Arts Academy, holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, and has been mentored by artists Tonya Lockyer, Zoe Scofield, and Danielle Agami. She is currently a Creative Resident at Velocity Dance Center, will be Artist in Residence at The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is January 2013, and dances with Ate9.