Bio

Katia is a documentary producer and director who has worked in the trenches of documentary production since 2005. She recently produced Carla Gutiérrez' FRIDA, the award-winning Sundance Film Festival documentary about the artist Frida Kahlo that is available to watch on Amazon PRIME. Her longtime association with public television includes co-directing, with April Hayes, the PBS film Home Truth, a ten-year longitudinal film about a Latina domestic violence survivor and human rights advocate. She also produced Kingdom of Shadows (POV) and The Graduates/Los Graduados (Independent Lens) and has worked with veteran journalist Bill Moyers on several of his public affairs television programs. She lives in New Jersey and is a mom of two.