Credits

Founder and CEO of Story2

• Storytelling community of over a quarter-million people across five continents.

• Created the Moments Method®, a patented storytelling framework, and EssayBuilder® platform to teach people how to speak and write powerfully.

• Backed by Goldman Sachs, Techstars, Kaplan, and Yale.

• Named Top 20 Women in NYC Tech. 

• Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Washington Post. 

• Sold her first company, a marketing tech startup. Customers included Jaguar North America, Ernst & Young, and Princeton University.  

• Launched the first online discussion groups for people with HIV, working with Pfizer and global marketing company WPP.

• Coached five successful CEOs -- including those listed on Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and Forbes’ Top 100 Most Powerful Women in the World -- to complete and publish their books.

• Created Cross-Cultural Dialogue program between Israeli, Palestinian, and US middle school and high school teachers and students. 

• Award-winning teacher of writing, gender, and sexuality at Princeton, University of Michigan, and Rutgers.  

• Served on the Board of Directors of the Women Writers Project at Brown University; working with CETH, created the first online editions of Shakespeare and the U.S. Declaration of Independence for scholarly use.

• Author of two award-winning books: English Women's Poetry (Oxford University Press), which was recognized as a top 100 book in the Humanities, and Write Out Loud (McGraw-Hill Education), the definitive study of how to use storytelling to write successful college admission essays. 

• Graduated summa cum laude from Yale with distinction as a Scholar of the House.

• First to receive a PhD combining Literature and Gender Studies from Princeton.