Katy Haas is a documentary photographer and filmmaker from New Hampshire. Her independent work explores the personal stories of how the economy and environment interact - from startup farms in New England and multi-generation family farms in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Her work includes projects on North Atlantic shipping and Icelandic whaling. La Frontière, a short documentary about border communities in Maine she co-produced and directed with Megan Ruffe, has been broadcast on multiple PBS stations and been nominated for a BNE Emmy. She holds a bachelors degree from Smith College in American Studies and a certificate from Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She attended the Burren College of Art, where she later received an artist residency for her photographs of farms on Ireland's west coast. This work also brought her a residency at Bakery Photo Collective in Westbrook, Maine, and a grant from the Monica Flaherty Frassetto Fund. She has been involved with teaching photography at a variety of institutions in New York and around New England. She worked for Florentine Films for many years on award winning projects, including as the apprentice editor on The Dust Bowl, associate producer on the series Country Music and co-producer on the biography Benjamin Franklin.