\ KATINA A. PAPSON RIGBY \  

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Deeply committed to multicultural education and to fostering culturally competent learning environments
• Innovative K-12 certified educator with six years full time classroom teaching experience
• Strong advocate for community based and student centered learning
• Skilled communicator with diverse constituencies
• Established longstanding & successful partnerships with community organizations and city agencies
• Experienced author of social justice and arts integrated curriculum
• Dedicated team leader devoted to establishing collective goals through creative collaboration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Program Associate | World Savvy, National Global Education Non-Profit
Bay Area Media & Arts Program, 2007 – Present

• Facilitate workshops and lead community fieldtrips with over 1,000 Bay Area students a year
• Coach, support, and sustain close working partnerships with 20+ middle & high school educators a year
• Provide unique hands on experiential and project based learning opportunities for youth using the local community as a classroom, often in collaboration with expert individuals and organizations to support globally themed projects
• Design and co-facilitate professional development institutes focused on global issues and arts integration
• Co-author and editor of three World Savvy original curriculum guides incorporating global themes (Power in a Global Society, Immigration and Identity, Sustainable Communities) with contemporary art and films
• Plan and execute annual large-scale youth arts museum exhibition, screening, performance showcase and community event

Certified K-12 Art Educator | Amherst Pelham Regional High School, Amherst, Massachusetts
September 2000 - June 2005

• Courses taught: Foundations of Art, Black + White Darkroom Photography, Digital Photo/Photoshop, Grades 9-12
• Co-organized and led school trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon to explore & strategize education/action campaigns about the devastating effects of oil explorations on indigenous communities (Chevron/Texaco)
• Designed and implemented  ‘Girls Eye View’, middle school girls photography leadership after-school program
• Co-designed and directed student initiated multimedia activist art/performance group called AWARE after 9/11/2001
• Faculty representative on Amherst Pelham Unified School District Council
• Afterschool technical theater co-director: set painting and lighting design
• Mentored five student teachers during tenure as classroom educator

Executive Director | Deerfield Academy Summer Arts Camp, Deerfield, Massachusetts
Camp Supervisor, Photography Instructor, Summer 2002 – June 2005

• Hired, trained and coached a staff of 20 college-age artists as summer educators
• Organized and managed daily camp activities and final festival youth arts, film screening and performance events
• Worked closely with Deerfield Academy administration, staff and parents/ guardians

Executive Committee Chair | Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco
Diversity Co-Chair (2009 – 2011), Collaborations Chair (2008), Marketing & Communications Co-Chair (present)

• Cooperating chair and advisor within a group of professional teaching artists and arts organizations dedicated to the advancement of arts education in San Francisco, and to providing children and youth with educational opportunities in the creative arts
• Actively work to provide a forum for the exchange of information and ideas among community and members on issues including diversity and equity, and successful school to community partnerships

HONORS/ SCHOLARSHIPS/ AWARDS

• PAGE Fellow (Publicly Active Graduate Education), Imagining America, Artists + Scholars in Public Life Conference, 2006
• Robert Frost Chair for Teaching Excellence Award Nominee, Amherst High School, 2003-2004
• Amherst Area Educational Alliance Grants, AWARE Performance Group, 2001-2004
• UMass ALANA (African, Latino/a, Asian/ Pacific Islander, and Native American) Honor Society

EDUCATION
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
Masters of Fine Arts in Media Arts, 2007
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Computer, Design and Photography, 1999
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Art Education, K – 12 MA. State Certification, 1999 - Present

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Professional photographer and interdisciplinary artist
• Imaging software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
• Video editing software: Final Cut Pro, iMovie
• Microsoft Office
• Salesforce, Vertical Response, website maintenance and social media marketing

SELECTED ART EXHIBITS & PUBLICATIONS

• First Person, 7 Women and Video, Barbara Walters Gallery, New York March – April 2010
• Neighborhood Public Radio, Artist Collective, Whitney Museum Biennial Exhibition, New York 2008
• Pathogeographies (Other People's Baggage) Gallery 400 University of Illinois Chicago 2007
• Digital Artifact Magazine, Issue 1, 2007/ www.digitalartifactmagazine.com, Artists Television Access, San Francisco
• Black Factory, Performance with renowned artist William Pope. L, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, March 2007
• California College of the Arts Centennial Graduate Exhibition, Legend of Archie Lee (short film) San Francisco CA 2007
• What’s The Story, PLAySPACE Gallery, sole curator of exhibition, San Francisco, CA 2006
• Art and Ecology Festival, Performance “The Duel” San Francisco CA Sept 2006
• Fair Trade, Outpost Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006, www.outpost-art.org
• Fair Exchange, Outpost Gallery/Irene Tsatsos, Los Angeles, CA 2006
• All that Remains, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006
• Neighborhood Public Radio, Artist Collective (Artists Television Access & Southern Exposure) San Francisco, CA 2006-2008
• Process, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006
• Go Collaborative, Varnish Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006
• Triple Base Gallery, 24th Street Promenade, San Francisco, CA 2005
• Why We Teach, Teaching through Light and Darkness; Teachers College Press, publ. 2005           

SKILLS/ INTERESTS

• Proficient in Spanish language
• Passion for urban gardening
• Avid traveler (Ecuador, Turkey, Mexico, Greece, Italy, Spain)
• Proud Bronx, New York City native