As an undergraduate at Rutgers University, I shipped on a research vessel with ocean scientists filming Atlantic Crossing: A Robot’s Daring Mission, a documentary that premiered at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., and aired nationally on PBS. I lived as an au pair in Rome. I worked in finance on Wall Street. I studied acting at the Stella Adler Studio in New York, a creative home to artists such as Marlon Brando and Elaine Stritch. I traveled the world as a personal assistant, modeled for a museum as a goddess, and worked in film and television production alongside the likes of Nicholas Cage, Faye Dunaway, and Atlanta’s own drench god 2Chainz. I spent my late twenties creating, writing, and producing a short-form digital series, Assisted Living. I raised over $100K with my team through crowdfunding and personal donations and released the show online the first week of March 2020. During the pandemic, I moved to Whidbey Island to work with an incredible group of women at the first women’s writers retreat in the world, Hedgebrook, where I learned, slowly, how to tend a fire. 

Currently, I serve as Engagement Director for the Whidbey Environmental Action Network, an environmental non-profit with a mission of protecting wild spaces and promoting healthy ecosystems in Island County, Washington, and beyond.