Katrin Redfern

 

Katrin is Creative Director of Be Electric Studios in NYC, and produces award-winning film, theater, multimedia exhibits, and podcasts, both non-fiction and narrative. She writes about politics, anthropology and conservation among other things, and her plays have been produced for radio and stage. Katrin loves exploring and has studied wilderness skills with some of the foremost survivalists, learned from and documented remote hunter-gatherers, run with the bulls in Mexico, hiked the red heart of Australia—her mother's country—uncovered illegal detention centers as a reporter in Cambodia, and organized for worker's rights across several countries and industries. Katrin has served as Human Rights Commissioner for the City of Newburgh, NY and is a certified grief educator, passionate about providing peer-to-peer support for suicide loss.

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Katrin holds an MSc from the London School of Economics, an MA from the University of Sussex, and an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a 2021 Felipe P. De Alba Fellow. She is currently Visiting Fellow and Director of Impact & Outreach for the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews.