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My name is Nicole Carlos-Watson
Email: carloswatsoninterpreting@gmail.com
My pronouns are: they/them
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: ASL/English Interpreter
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Public speaking, Event planning, Marketing, Nonprofits, Political organizing & activism
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Pilipinx diaspora, disability justice, anti imperialism and decolonization
Instagram: @elementarymydear
My name is Danica Li
Email: rondaview@gmail.com
My pronouns are: she/hers
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: I'm a union lawyer and writer!
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Publicity, Public speaking, Password sharing, Event planning, Pet sitting, Housesitting, Exercising/hiking, Music, Political organizing & activism, Food & cooking, Carpooling, Gardening
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Everything!
Website: www.danicaxli.com
Instagram: @danicaxli
Twitter: @danicaxli
My name is Marya Brennan
Email: mlbrenna@gmail.com
My pronouns are: She/her
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: Co-Director of Programs at National Novel Writing Month/ fiction, dogs and dog training, tarot, circus, thrift shopping, museums
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Exercising / hiking, Nonprofits, Carpooling
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Wood block printing, roller skating, filmmaking, tarot, transcendental meditation, bike mechanics, Spanish language learning
Instagram: @marya_brennan
Twitter: @moxyb
My name is Nina Shen Rastogi
Email: nina.rastogi@gmail.com
My pronouns are: She/her
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: I used to work as a journalist/critic (mostly at Slate and Vulture) and had all kinds of other literary lives (English teacher, grad student, book and comic book editor, VP of a literary startup for teens and young adults) ... now I work as a UX content designer and have had various language-oriented tech roles for the last decade or so. I'm on the board of the California Shakespeare Theater and work with them on marketing/branding projects and give talks about the plays through their dramaturgy department.
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Marketing, Technology
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: I love running reading groups and am always looking for cool opportunities to moderate/facilitate events and brainstorms. As a writer, I'm trying to figure out how to get to work without an editor's deadlines!
Website: nina-shen-rastogi.com
Instagram: @ninashen
Twitter: @ninashen
My name is Lena Moses-Schmitt
Email: lenamschmitt@gmail.com
My pronouns are: She/her
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: I work in publishing as a book publicist, and I'm also a poet, essayist, and artist.
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Publicity, Visual arts/crafts
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about:
Website: lenamoses-schmitt.com
Instagram: @lenamschmitt
Twitter: @lenamschmitt
My name is Bethany Kaylor
Email: kaylorbe@gmail.com
My pronouns are: She/her
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: Writing (mostly creative nonfiction; mostly reported essays and personal essays)! Also visual note-taking, animation, and drawing.
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Visual arts/crafts, Marketing, Pet sitting, Exercising/hiking, Nonprofits, Food & cooking, Carpooling, Gardening
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Drawing! Watercolor painting. Color theory, drawing in perspective, you know, the works....I'm also interested in more tactile art, like lino-cut prints. (After so much writing, it's a real relief to just use my hands to make something). I'd love to chat with a trained graphic designer; I'm new to the field (by way of my job), and I'm so curious to learn more about the principles of composition and balance and typography and all that.
Website: www.bethanykaylor.com
Instagram: @kaylorbe
My name is Jolene Torr
Email: jolenetorr@gmail.com
My pronouns are: She/her
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into:
I love to write. I work in publishing as the Assistant Director of Marketing at University of California Press. And I'm trying unsuccessfully to learn to play the guitar.
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Publicity, Visual arts/crafts, Marketing, Music, Film/TV, Food & cooking
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: I would love to join a writing group. It'd be fun to learn to make crafts or get together to draw or paint or make things out of clay, so I'm down for that. If I ever get decent at playing the guitar, playing music together would be cool. I'm a movie nerd, so I'd also love to have a group viewing session.
Instagram: @jolenethesong
Twitter: @jolenesbrain
My name is Nicole Wong
Email: nicoleemwong@gmail.com
My pronouns are: She/her/hers
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: My day job is working at Spotify on the Podcast Business Operations team. I started my career in audio/podcasting in 2016 at Gimlet Media as an audio producer. Non-audio related: I'm into crafting (embroidery, polymer clay, collage), watercolor & pen illustration, mahjong, inventing new recipes out of leftovers, flea markets and learning new things!
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Event planning, Visual arts/crafts, Exercising/hiking, Nonprofits, Podcasting/radio, Food & cooking, Gardening
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about:
Bay Area/Oakland history, media studies, film/tv production, graphic design, political organizing & activism
Instagram: @nikiwongie
Twitter: @nikiwongie
My name is Bethany Woolman
Email: bwoolman@gmail.com
My pronouns are: She & they
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: Writing, nonprofit communications, crafting, interior design, strength training, houseplants
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Visual arts/crafts, Exercising/hiking, Nonprofits, Running a business, Political organizing & activism, Gardening
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: I'd love to learn more about screenwriting and working on film sets :)
Website: bethanywoolman.com
Instagram: @besalyn
My name is Shane King Zackery
Email: szackery1244@gmail.com
My pronouns are: They/them/Shane
I live in: East Bay
What I do / What I’m into: Writing, film, entrepreneurship, coding
Ask me about: Writing/editing, Babysitting, Technology, Running a business, Film/TV
What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Equal opportunity learner
Website: Shanekingzackery.com
Instagram: @shanekingzackery
San Francisco, CA