It was featured in the 1995 motion picture Dangerous Minds and appeared on the soundtrack and IMx's album We Got It.
Students were shown extracts from films known to induce fear (horror movies such as The Blair Witch Project, Scream, The Shining) or sadness (dramas such as City of Angels, Philadelphia, or Dangerous Minds).
Criminal Minds | Simple Minds | The Most Dangerous Game | Dangerous Women | Dangerous Minds | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior | The Dangerous Summer | Dangerous Liaisons | The Most Dangerous Game (film) | Elite: Dangerous | Dangerous World Tour | Dangerous Power | Dangerous Beauty | The World's Most Dangerous Band | The Dangerous Book for Boys | Dangerous Visions | Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World | CBS Orchestra#The World's Most Dangerous Band | Young and Dangerous 4 | Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | ''Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors'' | This Woman Is Dangerous | The World's Most Dangerous Places | The World's Most Dangerous Magic | The Most Dangerous Game (Gavin Lyall novel) | ''The Most Dangerous Game'' | The Dangerous Games | Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) | particularly dangerous situation | My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers |
As an actor, he has appeared on shows such as The Shield, Nash Bridges and General Hospital, The Girl Next Door, Rapid Guy Movement, Dangerous Minds, Copycat, First Years, Zoom Experience and hosted HGTV's Curb Appeal.
The novel My Posse Don't Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson and subsequent movie adaptation Dangerous Minds were based upon her experience as a teacher at Carlmont in the 1990s.
Gripsta was also featured in a principal role in the movie Dangerous Minds in which she played one of the many troubled teens that actress Michelle Pfeiffer sought to reform.