A natural dyer and educator with over a decade of practice, Kristin has taught workshops and retreats across the United States at celebrated institutions including Penland School of Craft, John C. Campbell Folk School, and the Center for Craft. Her teaching blends chemistry and experimentation with accessible, hands-on learning, shaped by years of study with leading practitioners, including Catharine Ellis, Joy Boutrup, and Kathy Hattori, and assisting Yoshiko Wada and Tomoko Torimaru.

Kristin has served as Textiles Department Head at The Crucible in Oakland, sat on the board of Local Cloth in Asheville, and engaged deeply with Fibershed communities nationwide. At home, she tends a garden of seasonal dye plants, sharing seeds and process with her community.

Her path also includes two 200-hour yoga teacher trainings and a 40-hour restorative yoga certification developed over fifteen years, and she brings this contemplative dimension into her teaching and community practice.

Through teaching, writing, and research, she is committed to making natural dyeing approachable while illuminating the living relationships between fiber, plant, and place, and to the belief that how we make things matters as much as what we make.