My deal.

I am a working parent. (Yes, I'm really leading with that.)

I started my production career as a script supervisor on short films and independent features, tracking cigarette length continuity like a boss. Then I moved into writing and producing commercials, animated films, and TV series.

I started my reproduction career with the birth of my first child.

And I realized how "work" and "life" were never going to be mutually exclusive. Or balanced.

When I first became a mom, I saw other working parents marginalizing their families, squeezing "life" into the cracks of their "work" days. I can't subscribe to this practice.

My kids motivate me. Inspire me. And remind me that if I'm going to be away from them for 10 hours a day, it's got to be for a meaningful reason. And it is; the work I do fulfills me in ways parenting does not, and vice versa. (Also, I live in NYC, and it's expensive AF.)

My years in creative production informed my parenting. And my experience as a mom has only benefited me at work. If I can stay chill through a third degree meltdown in a supermarket check-out aisle, I can deal with whatever drama work throws my way.

That has steered me into a new branch of creative storytelling as an intimacy coordinator. I take my caregiving expertise and leverage my creative leadership, conflict management, and human-centered filmmaking expertise to support performers, directors, and crew. Building this kind of artistic safety on set unlocks creativity for everyone I collaborate with.

Over the course of my 15+ year career, I have written and creative directed award-winning content for such networks as IFC, A&E, SundanceTV, and Bravo. I've produced TV for Disney and OWN. My personal essays and short humor pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Reductress, Self, and the print anthologies Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life, and So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real About Motherhood.

And I've gone on at least two class trips a year, attended orchestra concerts, dance recitals, ballroom demonstrations, and class presentations. All those experiences have fueled my creative approach, so that I may inspire the next generation.

It's never a balance. It's always a flow.

I'm a native New Yorker, born and raised in Queens. I live in Jackson Heights with my husband and our two children. AMA about Star Wars and 80s New Wave.

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