EDUCATION
2006 Atlantic Theater Company Performing Arts Conservatory
2019 Palm Beach State College, Associate of Arts (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Jack Kent Cooke scholarship semi-finalist)
Current Florida Atlantic University, BA: Interdisciplinary Studies. Primary Concentration: English. Secondary Concentration: Media Communications.
PROJECTS
2020 Conversations that Matter: Identity (Presentation), Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, Curator
2019 Gender, Minority and Culture course: Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Republic: Guest Speaker
2019 FUTURE: silent auction to benefit McKinley Elementary School in Compton with The Echo Society and Education Through Music, Los Angeles, CA: Curatorial Assistant
2019 Artist Talk: "Disorientation Through Dreamwork", Locust Projects, Miami FL: Guest Speaker
2019 How Can We Best Restore Civil Discourse in Our Culture? Palm Beach State College, Lake Worth, FL: MC
2017 One of Millions, Dream Pop Press (Nominated for Push Cart Prize, Nominated for Sundress Publications Best of the Net): Poet
2017 The Betsy Writer's Room, Miami Beach, FL: Writer in Residence
2017 Clusters (featuring Pussy Riot) directed by Claire Christerson, Teen Vogue: Creative Director/Producer/Performance Artist
2016 Ear Tagging chapbook and short film, Shirt Pocket Press: Poet/Creative Director
2016 Sexy Beast art benefit with Night Gallery for Planned Parenthood, Ace Hotel Theatre, Los Angeles, CA: Cultural Programming, Social Media Manager
2015 #YESALLWOMEN art benefit, Dilettante, Los Angeles, CA: Director/Curator
2015 Go For Broke, Swampspace, Miami, FL: Photographer
2014 Hello, Selfie! by Kate Durbin, Los Angeles, CA: Photographer
2014 The Chapess Zine #6 exhibition, Doomed Gallery, Dalston, London, UK: Photographer
2014 Hello, Selfie! by Kate Durbin, Transfer Gallery, New York, NY: Photographer
2013 O, Miami Poetry Festival soapbox reading, The Betsy Hotel, Miami Beach, FL: Poet
2012 Open House curated by Melissa Diaz, Brooklyn, New York: Photographer
2009 The Drowned World directed by Caitlin Hart, The Vagrancy Theatre Company, The 6470 Theatre, Los Angeles, CA: Sound Designer
2008 Burnt Alive directed by William Hoffman and Derek Paul Boyle: Lead Actress
2007 The Soldier's Wife directed by J.B. Herndon (Official Selection SXSW, Screened at Locarno Film Festival and Bumbershoot Film Festival): Lead Actress
2006 No Exit directed by Brendan McCall, Looking Glass Theatre, New York, NY: Producer/Lead Actress
2006 Edie: Factory Girl book release, Nat Finkelstein, New York, NY: Event Planner, Exhibition Designer
PUBLICATIONS
Purple Fashion Magazine, BUST, Teen Vogue, Vogue Italia, Dazed, Refinery 29, Bullett, Nylon, Departures, Huffington Post, The London Evening Standard, The Sun-Sentinel, Paper, Whitewall, Dwell, Filter, Grazia, Zink, Live Fast, Autre, Oyster, Filter, Miami New Times, The Chapess Zine, Fashion Etc, Grandlife Hotels, V Magazine, ArtInfo, Art21, FEM Magazine, Electric Literature, Artillery, Poetry Foundation, The Hollywood Reporter
RECENT CLIENTS
Beth Rudin DeWoody: The Bunker Artspace, Gavlak Gallery, East Los Angeles Women's Center, The Echo Society, Taschen, Lee Jeans, Mick Rock, The MAK Center for Architecture, The Betsy Hotel, Night Gallery, Lomography, The Advance Group
SELECTED PRESS
2017 Lomography: Road Trip: Wanderlust and the LC-A+ with Jessie Askinazi
2017 DAZED: Pussy Riot’s Nadya on Trump & Domestic Violence Service Cuts
2017 Bullett: Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova Releases Anti-Trump Art Film
2015 AV Club: Lake Bell holds nothing back on WTF, challenges Maron’s idea of happiness
2015 BUST: #YesAllWomen Tweets Ignite An Inspiring Art Event
2015 Creator's Connect: Inside the Project: #YESALLWOMEN
2015 Ms. Magazine: These Works of Art Will Make You Feel Feminist as F*ck
2015 Oyster: Rose McGowan, Rain Phoenix & More On Art, Feminism And #YESALLWOMEN
2015 Refinery 29: How #YesAllWomen Became More Than A Hashtag
2015 TakePart: ‘Yes, All Women’: Rose McGowan Flips the Feminist Hashtag Into Action
2015 Whitewall: FIRST EVER #YESALLWOMEN ART BENEFIT IN LOS ANGELES
2015 WTF With Marc Maron: Episode 633
2014 Creator's Connect: MEET JESSIE ASKINAZI
INTERNSHIP
2005 Nat Finkelstein Photography
CERTIFICATES
Crisis Counselor for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence by the state of California