CURRENT Ongoing Projects
The Email Refrigerator
A monthly emailed publication helping people think about their lives, relationships, and work more deeply.
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Founder, Writer, Curator
Caveday
A company improving our relationship to work. Teaching focus workshops, writing content and leading focus sessions for a growing global community and corporate teams.
Co-founder. Head of Brand and Content
The School of Life
As a founding US faculty member, I’m bringing emotional intelligence workshops, tools, and ideas to corporate teams.
Facilitator
The List Maps
Whenever I travel, I make a custom map of things to do in that city. When I visit, I write a review. The List Maps is a collection of all my global city maps as a guide for wherever you’re traveling.
Curator, Writer
Past Projects
3800 Days in LA
A digital love letter to LA as a virtual driving tour through the city, calling out personal stories and favorite locations along the journey. Nominated and finalist for a 2020 Webby for use of photography.
(The site was taken down in 2021.)
Designer, Writer, Coder (2013-2014)
What’s Newswordy
Website that scanned the world’s 5 biggest news sources and showed the most used word of the day. You could look at words from previous days or search a word and see how common it was today. In collaboration with Natalie Sun and Ian Serlin.
(The site was taken down in 2017.)
Designer, Developer (2015)
BettVR With Age
A series of Virtual Reality films aimed at enriching the lives of senior citizens. Featured in Wired and Vice.
Director, Editor, Producer (2016-2017)
100 Albums
100 3x3” watercolor paintings of some the greatest albums of all time.
Done as part of the #100DayProject
Artist (2017)
45 Villains
45 Watercolor paintings of Donald Trump as famous cinematic villains.
Featured in NY Daily News and Huffington Post.
Artist (2017-2018)
The Creative Department
Management training for a community emerging creative leaders. Our first cohort included creative leaders from companies including Lego, charity:water, Liberty Mutual, PicsArt, Misen, and more. Collaborated with Andre
(The site was taken down in 2022.)
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
People In My Life
A series of 150 illustrations of the coworkers, friends, and family members in my life. Based on the insight from Dunbar’s Number– the psychological limit to the number of relationships humans can keep (~150).
Artist (2010-2011)
You’re Better Than Brunch
A weekend adventure club to build community around intentional living.
(The site was taken down in 2021. RIP.)
Creator, Director (2014-2017)
Children In Cages Mural
During the height of the Trump presidency, I had a short residency in Heraklio, Greece to paint a mural. I chose the topic of immigrants and refugees which was part of a global conversation which focused on Greece and the thousands of middle eastern and European refugees seeking asylum, many of whose first stop was Crete.
Read more about my process here →
Artist (2018)
The Power of Water
An unofficial collaboration with charity:water and their brand content lead Tyler Riewer, using watercolors to paint scene of the communities they serve. 24×36″.
Artist (2018-2019)
Once Upon a Pancake
A book of story starters for creative writers to work collaboratively, launched and funded on Kickstarter. In Collaboration with Rick Benger.