Read my latest piece in Huffington Post "I was a female chess prodigy. My story is eerily like Beth Harmon's."
Read my latest piece in The Independent "The Real Life Queen's Gambit" which was then featured in Episode 113: "I Was the Real Life's Queen's Gambit" on Writing Class Radio's podcast.
Here's my latest piece for WIRED: www.wired.com/story/how-to-learn-chess-online-sharpen-game/
A native New Yorker, I finally left NYC when COVID came moving to Kentucky where, wishing to continue my work in the special needs community, I joined the board of Louisville Disability Association. I also became a certified Reiki Practitioner --and got my driver's license-- while continuing to write and teach chess online before heading to rural Tennessee for a long-term writing residency at Sarasvati where I socialize donkeys, stay active in the recovery community, and am involved with TNDP (Take Back Tennessee). Most recently, I earned a grant to work on my memoir "Checkmating" which I'm currently shopping around. An excerpt of this was published in the anthology (HER)oics: Women's Shared Experiences During The Coronavirus Pandemic.
For information about my chess coaching, go here. A scholastic chess champion, I've taught chess in NYC schools since I was 13, for the last ten years specializing in teaching chess in schools for special needs children. Being recently diagnosed with ADHD myself has only furthered my deep investment in changing the way autism is portrayed in media and entertainment. As a writer, storyteller, and producer, I foster environments and create productions that include neuro diverse casts, creative, and production teams. My work reflects the diverse world we live in in processes that are inclusive of those whose stories are being presented. I'm active in the world of social justice, from arts therapy programming in the recovery and prison community to living in and researching intentional communities, and bringing to light social issues that need to be shared while creating community around that process.
Former Artistic Director of 20,000 square-ft media and performance venue in Long Island City, NYC, The Arc, where I co-facilitated, among other things, the first live 24-hour reading of The Mueller Report which livestreamed worldwide, Elizabeth Warren's infamous 'Break Up The Tech' talk, and organized and produced "Sanctuary" a benefit for detained immigrants using their words.
B.A. in Utopias and Dystopias from NYU/Gallatin. For my thesis, I traveled across the country visiting intentional communities and then had to strip in New Orleans at Big Daddy's to earn my way back (which turned into a book manuscript called The Boho Girls).
MFA in playwriting from Hunter College where I was mentored by Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, and Samuel D. Hunter.
For information about my chess coaching, go here. A scholastic chess champion, I've taught chess in NYC schools since I was 13, for the last ten years specializing in teaching chess in schools for special needs children. Being recently diagnosed with ADHD myself has only furthered my deep investment in changing the way autism is portrayed in media and entertainment. As a writer, storyteller, and producer, I foster environments and create productions that include neuro diverse casts, creative, and production teams. My work reflects the diverse world we live in in processes that are inclusive of those whose stories are being presented. I'm active in the world of social justice, from arts therapy programming in the recovery and prison community to living in and researching intentional communities, and bringing to light social issues that need to be shared while creating community around that process.
Former Artistic Director of 20,000 square-ft media and performance venue in Long Island City, NYC, The Arc, where I co-facilitated, among other things, the first live 24-hour reading of The Mueller Report which livestreamed worldwide, Elizabeth Warren's infamous 'Break Up The Tech' talk, and organized and produced "Sanctuary" a benefit for detained immigrants using their words.
B.A. in Utopias and Dystopias from NYU/Gallatin. For my thesis, I traveled across the country visiting intentional communities and then had to strip in New Orleans at Big Daddy's to earn my way back (which turned into a book manuscript called The Boho Girls).
MFA in playwriting from Hunter College where I was mentored by Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, and Samuel D. Hunter.
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