Nettrice Gaskins is a Ph.D. candidate and researcher in Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program. Her work investigates culturally situated arts-based learning and new media, their invention, and use in underrepresented communities of practice. This includes the use of new media tools and platforms, and existing cultural artifacts. She is a writer/columnist for Art21, the producer of the Peabody award-winning PBS series, Art in the Twenty-First Century. She has other works published online and in Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader, scheduled to be published by Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC Press. Nettrice is also board president of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture.