About
Katherin is an artist and award-winning filmmaker who is interested in what is hiding in the dark corners of the American landscape and our collective psyches, believing truth is often found in the dark before it shines in the light. Katherin was the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of "Shades of Contradiction", a nationally distributed arts and culture magazine dedicated to critical thinking and creative action. She has produced, directed and written short and feature documentaries, including "The Cocktail Waitress" for KCTS/PBS broadcast. THE PRISON WITHIN, her award-winning first feature film, sprung from her work as a Los Angeles Public Defender and volunteer prison college instructor, where she worked weekly with men who had committed serious acts of violence and had been sentenced to die in prison. THE PRISON WITHIN premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, winning best Social Justice Documentary, the first of 7 awards, including the 2021 Media for a Just Society Award. The film is also a credited class titled “Pathways to Justice” at Seattle University School of Law, part of an educational curriculum for federal and state prisons nationwide, and available on Discovery Plus, Amazon Prime, Apple TV and numerous streaming and cable platforms.
Katherin is a thought leader in the field of criminal justice reform, featured on The Black News Channel, Business Insider, The Guardian, Forbes, and other publications, TV and radio shows, and podcasts.
Katherin received her Bachelor's degree in Cross-cultural Communication in America from University of Washington and is a graduate of Vancouver Film School. She also holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Loyola Law School. Her mixed media artworks and creative fiction have been exhibited in galleries and published in online and print literary journals.
Her current projects include “Trouble Finds Me” (Executive Producer, Producer), “Stitching the Soul” (Director, Producer), “Building a House of Love” (Director, Producer) and the upcoming podcast "Broken is Beautiful", co-hosted with Christopher Blackwell, an award-winning journalist currently incarcerated in Washington State.