Kristine Diekman is a media artist and educator working in documentary and experimental film, new media, sound studies and community-based media. She has won awards and grants for her internationally screened media from California Arts Council, California Humanities Community Stories, Paul Robeson Foundation, ZKM, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for Art, The Keck Foundation and others. She has held residencies and fellowships at McDowell, Yaddo Arts Colony, Harvestworks/Studio Pass, and others. Her work is in such esteemed collections as the Getty Center, CA, Fales Library, NYC, Video Out, Vancouver, The Kitchen, NY, and the Lux Center, London.  Her recent media projects focus on water and environmental justice, proposing new frameworks for political ecologies of water in California.  As an educator, she facilitates international workshops in digital storytelling and physical computing that lead participants through writing, craft, computing, and sound production to create interactive tactile audio interfaces to tell their stories. She is a Full Professor in the Art, Media & Design Department at California State University where she teaches media theory and production, and sound studies. She is Director of Video in the Community, a program that collaborates with organizations and individuals to enact social change.