Deborah Koons Garcia has a Master of Fine Arts from The San Francisco
Art Institute. She has made fiction, educational and documentary films.
She owns her own production company in the Bay Area of California. For
the last ten years, she has focused primarily on films about
agriculture and the food system.
Deborah Koons Garcia is the third wife and widow of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Deborah and Jerry met in 1975 and maintained a friendship for the years to follow. They were married in 1994.