Katina Papson Rigby is an interdisciplinary artist and classroom and community educator originally from the Bronx, New York City. She holds a double degree Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Computer Design & Photography, and K-12 Art Education. In 2007, she completed her Masters of Fine Arts in Media Arts from the California College of the Arts. A strong advocate for youth and community arts, she has six years experience as a high school art teacher and 14 years working in public schools. For three years, she acted as Co-Executive director of DASAC, Deerfield Academy Summer Arts Camp, an interdisciplinary summer arts camp for youth ages 11-16.

Papson Rigby has been training and coaching educators to integrate global themes such as immigration and sustainability into their classroom curricula through the arts for the past four years at global education non profit, World Savvy. Raised by immigrant parents, Katina believes strongly in the arts paired with creative curiosity to facilitate healthy and productive cross-cultural and cross-generational dialogue.

As an artist, Papson Rigby's choices of media range from photography to video, performance to social practice as well as pirate radio. With great interest in social/relational art forms, she creates works that eliminate laws of profit by replacing them with free interchanges creating open-to-the-public collaborations. She currently lives in San Francisco, California.