3 SENTENCE STORY | My freshman English teacher said, “You’ll never be able to write well enough to major in English.” “If I want to write better,” I asked, “what should I do?” I’ve been conquering writing ever since.

EDUCATION | B.A., English, Yale University, Scholar of the House summa cum laude; M.A., English, University of Virginia; PhD, Princeton.

EXPERIENCE | Award-winning author, English + Women’s Studies prof at Princeton, Michigan, Rutgers. Started building “Digital Humanities” online communities in 1994 to get women writers into classrooms. 10 years in online marketing + community building. Goldman Sachs 10KSB. Techstars.

FUN FACT | I stayed up all night one Saturday in Jerusalem and Sunday AM walked down the Mount of Olives and prayed in 8 different churches.

3 SENTENCE STORY | Always having an interest in computer science, I opted to major in psychology instead. As I worked in that field I realized it just wasn’t my thing. Ignoring everyone urging me to stay in the field, I followed my true passion and became a software engineer.

EDUCATION | Rutgers University, The Art Institute of California

EXPERIENCE | Software Engineer at Toyota Racing Development, Sr. Software Engineer at Talkspace

FUN FACT | I enjoy collecting comic books, toys and antiques in my free time.

3 SENTENCE STORY |My wife and I would encourage our students to keep finding new stories. With more than a decade in the classroom, perhaps it was time for us to do the same. We sold our house, turned in the cars, and moved to Beijing.

EDUCATION | B.A., History, University of Michigan; M.A., Education, Wayne State University; M.A., Educational Technology, Central Michigan; Ph.D., Instructional Technology, Wayne State University

EXPERIENCE | Educator + instructional designer in K-12, higher education, global, and corporate environments. 

FUN FACT | I once told Stan Lee a story about his influence on my childhood. When I concluded, he kindly asked if I would repeat it again in his good ear.

THREE SENTENCE STORY | I’ve been a storyteller since I learned to speak. My childhood of playing make believe lead to a life in the arts. After years of traveling and searching for answers, I clicked my ruby red slippers and ended up back home.

EDUCATION | B.F.A., Theatre, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

EXPERIENCE | Actor, Writer, Story2 coach. 

FUN FACT | Played Romeo at age 11.

3 SENTENCE STORY | I’ve been a storyteller since I learned to speak. My childhood of playing make believe lead to a life in the arts. After years of traveling and searching for answers, I clicked my ruby red slippers and ended up back home.

EDUCATION | B.F.A., Theatre, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

EXPERIENCE | Actor, Writer, Story2 coach. 

FUN FACT | Played Romeo at age 11.

3 SENTENCE STORY | My wife and I would encourage our students to keep finding new stories. With more than a decade in the classroom, perhaps it was time for us to do the same. We sold our house, turned in the cars, and moved to Beijing.

EDUCATION | B.A., History, University of Michigan; M.A., Education, Wayne State University; M.A., Educational Technology, Central Michigan; Ph.D., Instructional Technology, Wayne State University

EXPERIENCE | Educator + instructional designer in K-12, higher education, global, and corporate environments. 

FUN FACT | I once told Stan Lee a story about his influence on my childhood. When I concluded, he kindly asked if I would repeat it again in his good ear.

3 SENTENCE STORY | Deciding to move to New York, and live so far away from my family in Florida was difficult. In early September 2001, I began driving up from Florida, and was staying in a Washington, D.C., hotel across from the Pentagon. Despite waking up on Sept. 11, 2001, to see black helicopters flying overhead, smoke on the horizon, and the attacks on the World Trade Center on television, I continued on my drive to New York.

EDUCATION | B.A., Journalism, University of Florida; M.A., Mass Communication, University of Florida.

EXPERIENCE | I began my career as a newspaper features writer, but a digital journalism course in graduate school changed my life as I fell into the emerging world of the Internet. My first jobs out of college were creating online communities during the early days of digital content. I also worked for a startup before the first dot-com boom went bust. Then when I moved to New York, I was web manager for a professional association, and that position gradually morphed into running operations and IT, with responsibilities over technology, AV, facilities, security, and emergency and disaster planning.

FUN FACT | I learned to speak Dutch so I could talk to my friends in Holland, but they only want to speak to me in English.

3 SENTENCE STORY | I attended graduate school on a whim as a gap year before law school. While in school I had the opportunity to work with hundreds of students, helping them reach their full potential as a TA. On my last day of school and law school acceptance deadline, I decided to pursue a career that fulfills me and helps me reach my full potential.

EDUCATION | B.A., Political Science & Labor and Employment Relations, Rutgers University; M.A., Industrial Labor Relations, Cornell University.

EXPERIENCE | Four years in Business Operations at early stage startups.

FUN FACT | I speak three languages!

3 SENTENCE STORY | That once-coveted phone call had come again. But telling stories on a Broadway stage no longer captivated my spirit the way it once had. Builders are storytellers too.

EDUCATION | BMus, Northwestern University.

EXPERIENCE | Dozens of contracts as a freelance developer during my years as a Broadway actor. Story2 is my first full-time software engineering role. 

FUN FACT | After my son saw me play Bert in Mary Poppins, he spent the next several weeks covering his face in black chalk and dancing around our apartment with a broom.

3 SENTENCE STORY | My mother insisted that I get out of the house to go play outside instead of reading indoors. I systematically bore holes throughout the entire back yard, and then stuck a running hose into one of them. From out of the fully-swamped yard, I was grounded to my room for two weeks, and read the entire original Dune trilogy.

EDUCATION | B.A., French Literature, Amherst College, summa cum laude; M.A./PhD, French Literature, The Johns Hopkins University.

EXPERIENCE | A 25-year veteran in digital communications. Since 2007, Managing partner of Syncresis®, a consultancy focused on thought leadership and communication strategy. Founder of Kindness Communication®, a venture dedicated to the idea that kindness creates better results and greater focus in companies and organizations. Advisory Board member of of The New 3Rs, an organization committed to creating leaders who are open to the culture of others and who will advocate for others in the workplace, community, school, and the world.

FUN FACT | I'm a bit of an obsessive when it comes to high-end men's fragrances from obscure perfumeries. I have a collection of over fifty. But on the other hand, I'm perfectly willing to go camping for days on a dry lakebed in the middle of the Mojave desert miles from the nearest road.

3 SENTENCE STORY | Right after the mailman closed the mailbox I ran outside barefoot and felt the cold stones on my feet. Opening the mailbox, I grabbed the fistful of letters inside and dashed back into my house. I searched through the letters, found one addressed to me and ripped it open to see the word "Congratulations!".

EDUCATION | B.A., History with honors, Wake Forest University; M.S.Ed., Education Entrepreneurship, University of Pennsylvania.

EXPERIENCE | Education strategist with experience spanning college admissions, guidance counseling and edtech.

FUN FACT | I have read over 10,000 admissions essays.

3 SENTENCE STORY | I grew up drawing cartoons, writing terrible sci-fi stories, and honing my Austin Powers impression. I became an actor so I could bring some of the greatest stories in the world to life. At Story2, I’m excited to help you tell the story only you can tell.

EDUCATION | B.A., Comparative Literature, Princeton University

EXPERIENCE | Taught at several pre-college enrichment programs via Putney Student Travel and Julian Krinsky Camps & Programs; freelance writer, editor, and proofreader; professional stage, film, and television actor. Current writing projects: a podcast audio drama and a fantasy adventure novel for young readers.

FUN FACT | One of my first professional acting jobs was playing the Map in ‘Dora the Explorer Live!’

3 SENTENCE STORY | My Guidance Counselor told me not to shoot so high, but my mom told me to follow my dreams. As I gave the commencement speech as the Guidance Counselor of my first class of graduating seniors, I remembered those discouraging words and promised my students to help them follow their dreams, too. Now that I've reached my younger self's goal, I'm off to show others how to pursue their own!

EDUCATION | CUNY Hunter College- B.A- major: Sociology; minor: Psychology, St. John's University- M.S Ed.: Bilingual School Counseling

EXPERIENCE | School Counselor, Director of College Counseling, Scholarship Essay Reader/Interviewer, Presented at a National Education Conference, Coached students into the most prestigious universities in the country, Story2 Coaching Manager

FUN FACT | My eldest son taught me how to play chess. My youngest son taught me that moms, in fact, do, have eyes on the back of their heads.

3 SENTENCE STORY | When I was 15, my drawing teacher told me that I had an eye for composition but no sense of proportion. The second part of his feedback threw me for a loop, but motivated me to go to life drawing classes every day that summer at the Art Students League. While I was the youngest student in the class, I learned how much I can accomplish by stepping out of my comfort zone and staying focused.

EDUCATION | B.F.A., General Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art; Certificate, User Experience Design, General Assembly

EXPERIENCE | Before becoming a UX Designer, building products ranging from finance and education tools to apps for non-profits, I worked as a Supply Chain Coordinator, Gallery Assistant, and Screen Printer. 

FUN FACT | I have a cat named Prince Romeow. 

3 SENTENCE STORY | In the summer of 2012, I decided to take a break from improv classes at The Upright Citizens Brigade and enroll in a storytelling class. A couple of weeks before the final performance, I embarrassingly broke my ankle. I ended up telling the story of how I broke it on stage while on crutches, and have been making myself wildly vulnerable in public ever since.

EDUCATION | B.F.A., Theatre, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

EXPERIENCE | Actor, voiceover artist, improviser, standup, & Moth StorySLAM-winning storyteller. Personal & executive assistant extraordinaire. Project manager & event producer.

FUN FACT | I will almost certainly cry, but I love giving toasts. 

3 SENTENCE STORY | As a child, I had a knack for telling stories that were suspiciously more exciting than their real-life counterparts. As a teenager, I channeled this penchant for exaggeration into a few too many angsty poems about my feelings. As an adult, I like to think I’ve found my sweet spot: by day, encouraging young people to tell their stories compellingly; by night, spinning strange tales of magic, intrigue, and all-too-real human relationships.

EDUCATION | B.A. English: Creative Writing, summa cum laude, SUNY New Paltz

EXPERIENCE | Published writer of fiction, poetry, and essays, most recently online at Autostraddle and Wigleaf, and in print in Foglifter Journal. Prose editor for 3Elements Literary Review. Current coordinator of a literacy/mentorship program for elementary schoolers, and former facilitator of a book club and discussion group for LGBTQ+ high schoolers.

FUN FACT | I spent a year after college volunteering with the Workaway program, and living in three corners of the U.S. (Oregon, Maine, and Florida). I worked on a CSA farm, in a restaurant, and in a private home, gaining experience with another passion of mine: vegan cooking!

3 SENTENCE STORY | When I left Ann Arbor for New York after living there most of my life, my friends threw a going-away party and put a sign up that read 'R.I.P. Maddy.' The truth is, I didn't know that I would stay in New York; I thought I might have a short stint in publishing and then go home. But I was wrong.

EDUCATION | B.A., English and Creative Writing, University of Michigan.

EXPERIENCE | I was an editor at an educational publishing company before becoming a coder. In 2019, I completed General Assembly's immersive web development course. 

FUN FACT | My dad and I share the same birthday!