Like many first-generation kids, I’ve always been a high-achiever. Even more, I saw creativity as a luxury. It was something you could be good or bad at. Something that you could do only after you became ‘successful.’

But, after graduating cum laude from NYU’s Undergraduate Stern School of Business and beginning my career at Goldman Sachs, I was in the depths of burnout. And in order to figure out the chaos in my brain, I found myself returning to a childhood past-time: writing.

“It woke something up in me. It defrosted my brain and helped me remember what it felt like to be human again.”

I haven’t stopped creating since. My blog, On Adulting, amassed a following of nearly 100K people around the globe, and became a book, published by Simon & Schuster/Skyhorse in Fall 2020.

I went on to study the impact of creativity on mental well-being, cognition and human potential at Columbia’s Mind-Body Institute, earning a Master’s in Clinical Psychology in May 2022. My work on creative health has been featured in Fast Company, Mindbodygreen, TIME, Health, Vox and other publications.

Creativity has the power to change the world - to heal the world - and that’s exactly what I’m here to do. I currently live in San Francisco with my husband and co-founder, Dupi, and our dog, Wythe.