Christopher Jenkins is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and lecturer in the Film & Media Studies department at UC Santa Barbara.

His work has aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Travel Channel, Nickelodeon and ARD-Germany. Prior to receiving a Masters degree in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University, Chris worked with deaf Sudanese refugees in East Africa and orphaned children in southern Chile.

"The rationale for investing in video was built on the awareness that community adaptation is essentially about change in human behavior, and such change is more likely to happen when people find both the intellectual and emotional reasons to think and act differently. Audiovisual tools can help to communicate scientifically complex issues in simple ways, with reliable accuracy, and using aesthetic approaches that can inspire and motivate, sometimes in surprising ways."

~ from Video-Mediated Approaches for Community-Level Climate Adaptation