Katrin Redfern

 

Katrin is Creative Director of Be Electric Studios and Brooklyn Soundstages 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 San Miguel, hiked the red heart of Australia, her mother's country, uncovered illegal detention centers in Cambodia, and organized for worker's rights in several industries. She is also a certified grief educator and is passionate about providing education and peer-to-peer support for suicide loss prevention.

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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.