Katherine M Acosta is a sociologist turned filmmaker. She earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she earned two graduate teaching awards and worked as a lecturer. She later moved to Madison, Wisconsin where she worked on several grant-funded research project. After the historic 2011 protests in Madison, she decided to combine her passion for documentary film with her sociological research skills to try her hand at film making. She learned through teaching that students were most readily engaged in sociological analysis through film. Storytelling, after all, is the way that humans have shared history and knowledge for millennia. Divided We Fall is her first film.