2019-2023
2016-2018
2014 - 2015
I'm a highly organized and collaborative storyteller working across mediums:
writing, video, podcast, interactive installations, games, cooking, dance, and visual art.
I turn vapors into solids:
thoughts and feelings into words, visions into physical forms.
I applied my storytelling and organizational skills to creating branded content. I worked at Discovery Digital Studios, designing creative pitches for S&P500 brands like Kraft, Philadelphia, etc. I directed and produced video content for financial companies like Bloomberg, THL, KKR, and Bain, and brands like Kohler through Osmosis Films. I wrote website copy, social media marketing content, and UX content for big brands like H&M and Good Alma. I honed my advertising copywriting in D5in10, a portfolio program at the ad agency Droga5.
Getting inside the voice of a brand is similar to creating the voice of a character.
I co-wrote, co-produced, and directed a short film called Wedding plans with the talented Zahra Rasool. The production company A24 tapped me to write scripts for a post-production educational program. I’ve continued to develop my own TV pilots (mostly dark dramedies with supernatural elements).
Having always had a strong sense of smell (which tied into my cooking background), I’d been developing and pitching a docu-series about this curious topic when the pandemic hit. I turned the idea into a podcast, and Smell Yeah! was born in 2021, debuting in the top 30 science podcasts in France, with listeners on five continents.
I earned a Master's in Fiction Writing at Columbia. While there, I got into Immersive storytelling, a natural extension of my work creating sensory experiences as a line cook, executing a vision as a producer, and world building as writer and set decorator. I was involved with two Experiential Projects through Columbia's Digital Storytelling Lab: The De-Escalation Room, which premiered at Slamdance Festival, and Frankenstein:AI, which premiered in the New Frontiers category at Sundance. Concepts from those projects dovetailed nicely into writing video game narrative for the Episode App. I taught recreational cooking classes in over 25 styles of cuisine at the Brooklyn Kitchen to large groups and clients like Spotify, and began a cooking club at ESA, a New York public high school, which helped me break down big concepts into manageable, fun activities.
In 2014 I moved to New Orleans where I cooked in restaurants like Bacchanal and Bayona, co-created a pop-up with the talented Soleil Ho, and volunteered in Edible Schoolyard classrooms. I made a lot of visual art during this period, mostly because I was hanging out with a bunch of amazing artists. I helped out on murals and got a job in the art department for a reboot of MTV's Scream. I kept writing, and organized a Cold Reads series, uniting local actors and writers. My own pages were adding up, and a novel began to take shape, so I applied to MFA programs.
2007 - 2013
I worked in Television Production on shows like Iron Chef America, Cake Boss spinoffs, and on the story team of Jerseylicious. TV production appealed to the project manager in me, and I knew it was a path that would intersect with my love of writing. I interned at NY Family magazine and created a quarterly literary journal with friends. Eventually I moved to digital video production at TheVisualMD.com, where I created health documentaries.
My other love is cooking, and during these years I also served as a Community Food Educator for the non-profit JustFood, managed four Greenmarkets with GrowNYC, and started teaching my own cooking classes with the help of Fast Track, a Bloomberg entrepreneurship program. In this phase of my life, I was also a dedicated martial artist, practicing and teaching capoeira in elementary schools. Working as an educator in New York schools and community centers sharpened my presentation skills.
Selected clients
H&M
Bain Capital
KKR
Bloomberg
THL
Kohler
A24
Discovery Digital Studios
Brooklyn Kitchens
Mysteries at the Museum
Jerseyliscious
The Food Network