Kathryn Ian GENTZKE

Kathryn is an award-winning educator, recognized by the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the San Francisco Legislative Assembly for her commitment to youth empowerment and civic engagement through education. She has facilitated interdisciplinary art, media, and writing workshops as well as youth mentorship and empowerment programs at cultural institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area, NYC, Upstate New York, and Berlin.  

Kathryn is a professional visual artist and musician. Her work has been recently featured in the Crossroads Film Festival (SFMoMA), and at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICALive!), among other venues in the United States, Europe, and Russia. She holds an MFA in interdisciplinary studio practice from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, an MA in Intercultural Humanities focusing on the history and theory of contemporary art from International University Bremen in Bremen, Germany, and a BFA in photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Learn more about her work by visiting kathrynian.com.

Dr. Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke

"As a scholar, instructor, musician, and writer, I am equally passionate about the creative and the critical imagination—the coordinates that orient my work."

Joshua holds a Ph.D. in Modern Religious Thought, Ethics, and Philosophy from Stanford University; M.A.s in Religious Studies from the University of Amsterdam and Stanford University; and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from SUNY at Buffalo. Joshua's work has been supported by the Fulbright Scholar Program, the HSP Huygens Scholarship Program, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has published, taught, and lectured extensively on the intersections between religion, philosophy, and art.  

Alongside his academic activities, Joshua is a musician, songwriter, and an author of both creative fiction and poetry. His work has recently been featured at the Crossroads Film Festival (SFMoMA) and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICALive!) as well as multiple venues in the United States, Europe, and Russia. Learn more about Joshua's work at newwildernesssociety.org.