Krista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator. Artistic Director of KD>>Moving Ground, she is committed to engaging interdisciplinary collaboration that bridges performance work, education and activism toward a socially just world. Current projects include EchoTheaterSuitcase and NETWORK. Krista has been an Artist Facilitator with Skywatchers and ABD productions, creating performance work, and engaging advocacy and community building with residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. She is a House Artist at CounterPulse and a member of the International Interdisciplinary Artist Consortium. As a lecturer, she has worked most recently with U.C. Berkeley’s Theater, Dance and Performance Studies department, and as a visiting professor and collaborator in Empathy Lab, a course developed in collaboration with Anthropology professor Lochlann Jain, at Stanford University. Krista teaches dance and performance making throughout the Bay Area and country.She received her BA in Dance/Dramatic Art and I.S.F. [Development and Human Rights] from U.C. Berkeley and her MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University.