About

Katy Gross is a photographer, educator, multimedia storyteller, and mother. She is Co-Founder of the grassroots journalism collective 505omatic and has worked in the arts nonprofit sector for 14 years -  as Program Director for Youth Media Project, Education Director and Co-Executive Director of Little Globe, and as Program Co-Director of ArtWorks. Born and raised in Santa Fe, NM, she fell in love with photography as a teenager when she took a black and white darkroom class at the local teen arts center, Warehouse 21. She holds an MA in arts education from NYU and a BA from Brown University in International Development Studies. She studied documentary photography at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, ME and at the former College of Santa Fe.  She has traveled to Ghana volunteering for an non-governmental organization that promotes women entrepreneurs and traveled to the South Pacific to accompany a film crew following six Navajo Code Talkers revisiting WWII battlefields. She is passionate about local storytelling, building community connections, and supporting people to tell their own stories in innovative ways.