About Me
Photo by Ashley Hsieh
After nine years of all girls' school followed by studying Film Studies and Literature at Claremont McKenna College, I spent some time writing screenplays while living in Australia. I then returned to my hometown of Los Angeles to work as an executive assistant at Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, and Columbia Pictures. During this time I contributed to Academy Award campaigns and high-profile international productions. Since leaving the studio system, I've spent time working for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and created a popular podcast about “Beverly Hills, 90210,” The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat. In 2022, I joined the Peabody Award-winning Feminist Frequency Radio podcast as a regular co-host alongside Anita Sarkeesian. In my free time I write essays and entertainment reviews, perform storytelling and comedy onstage, knit and crochet, and study American Sign Language. I may or may not write fan fiction under a pseudonym.
From 2019–2023 I served as the Communications Manager for WIF, a nonprofit advocacy organization working towards gender parity in the entertainment industry. In this role I oversaw a rebranding effort and website rebuild, collaborated on institutional messaging regarding the organization’s values and anti-oppression work (including a Clio Award-winning campaign in partnership with Saatchi & Saatchi NY), and created the #VoteForWomen film awards ballot which has been written about in The Los Angeles Times, Variety, and more. I also take on occasional freelance social media consulting work; contact me if you are interested in my services. Previously, I produced short-form educational and entertaining content as the Social Media Manager for the Los Angeles Zoo, as well as overseeing community engagement in both English and Spanish. In this role I was on the SoCal Museums Digital Marketing Subcommittee, presented social media case studies at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums annual conference, guest lectured on Digital Marketing at UCLA, and have had posts featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Forbes, LAist, Patch, the National Geographic Kids Almanac 2019, the Libris digital asset management platform’s webinar and blog, and more. A campaign that I conceived and executed was the recipient of the Public Relations Society of America, Los Angeles chapter’s 2019 PRism Award for “Best Campaign on a Shoestring Budget,” as well as Visit California’s 2020 Poppy Award for “Best Social Media Campaign.”
As of August 2023, my hour-long pilot CHERNOBYL’S GOT TALENT has been selected as a quarter-finalist for the Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest.
I live in L.A. with Ethan C. Harper and a robot cat I’ve named LECHE9000, neither of whom irritate my allergies.
