Cristina Ochagavia (originally known as Nini) was educated at Barnard and Smith Colleges, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa institute. She is a founder of astronaut Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Originally from Buenos Aires, she currently resides in Manhattan, where she exhibits at the Soho Photo Gallery. She has also exhibited at Smith College and in Tel Aviv. She wishes she were a professor of comparative literature, but has taken up roller skating.