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Bernie Su (Lizzie Bennet Diaries) and me being silly at the Deca NewFront

A new essay! Upsized and "Downsized"

An essay I wrote about my journey in web series for Aymar Jean Christian’s series Indie TV Innovation for Televisual

Winning Two Digiday Awards!

Super proud to have accepted awards on behalf of AOL for Best Editorial Achievement and Best Use of Video for MAKERS.

Did you catch me live blogging on the homepage of AOL.com during MAKERS: Women Who Make America?

Me, Dyllan McGee (Executive Producer of MAKERS: Women Who Make America), plus our some of our MAKERS.com team

IndieWire lists Downsized in its Best Of The Web 2012

Thanks Aymar Jean Christian for picking “Downsized” as part of the Best Of The Web 2012 write-up for IndieWire!

Must say he has great taste. We’re in great company.

With Tony Clomax, writer/director 12 Steps To Recovery at the 2012 Writers Guild Christmas Party
The team behind MAKERS and… the incomparable Gloria Steinem

Head over to MAKERS.com, a multi-platform video experience from AOL and PBS and watch some inspiring women share their thoughts and views on life. I am the Programming Director.

I interview cast members from Tina Cesa Ward’s Good People In Love.

The Guardian Newspaper names Downsized One of 25 Must See Web Shows!

So honored to have the show I created Downsized be included in UK’s Guardian newspaper’s List of 25 Must See Web Shows, along with Anyone But Me, Web Therapy, The Guild, Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, The Slope, and many others. 

I wrote this episode of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a modernization of Pride and Prejudice for YouTube, which is currently one of the most subscribed new channels on YouTube. In this episode, grad student Lizzie goes on a feminist rant about being a modern single 24 year old girl.

I was a writer/producer of the Digitas NewFront held on April 26th in New York City, emceed by JB Smoove and Ali Wentworth, and featuring Piers Morgan, Rashida Jones, Heidi Klum, and Kristin Chenoweth, as well as Felicia Day, Elle & Blair Fowler, Michelle Phan and executives from Yahoo, AOL, Hulu, Microsoft, and YouTube.

Me filling my candy bag in the AOL Lounge at the Digitas NewFront 2012. I served as a writer/producer of the livestream show and also coordinated 70+ meetings between celebrities, content partners and brands in the annual NewFront marketplace. I was a busy girl and needed some sugar!!!!

I hit up my first ComicCon! And got a chance to talk Husbands the Web Series with its creators and cast, while wearing my glasses to fit in… until I realized all the other girls are in costumes that could barely fit small children. (Now I get why guys go…) Here’s my interview with one of the too-few female TV writer/producer execs Jane Espenson, co-creator and YouTube star Cheeks, and actor Sean Hemeon.