I was born in Los Angeles in 1990. A 1997 Los Angeles Times profile described me as a profoundly gifted child in LAUSD and noted formal testing and accelerated placement at Eagle Rock Elementary.
1990-1997
I was born in Los Angeles in 1990. A 1997 Los Angeles Times profile described me as a profoundly gifted child in LAUSD and noted formal testing and accelerated placement at Eagle Rock Elementary.
2004-2007
By thirteen, I was already in UCLA classrooms. This period also included family rupture, housing instability, and leaving school when no parent could sign the FAFSA paperwork.
2007-2014
After leaving UCLA, I returned to school through Pasadena City College and UCLA Extension. The record is uneven, but it shows a real return to study after a break, not a straight line from gifted-child coverage to degree.
2014-2022
I first visited Kurdistan at nineteen in 2010 and later lived in Erbil for years. I bought a house there, worked as a software engineer, built Museum of Ours and Foundation of Ours, gave tours, collected artifacts, and worked on Jewish heritage sites before being expelled in 2022.
2022-present
In the Bay Area, my work has centered on public-facing community programs, Jewish events, photography, writing, and software. I have also worked with publishing, product, and platform work across the public record.
Jewish community work in the Bay Area includes programs, photography, talks, exhibitions, and public-facing projects. It connects the later part of the timeline back to heritage, memory, and communal sponsorship.
Queer life is part of the public record too. It appears in my writing, in my photography, and in fellowships, exhibitions, and programs that document LGBTQ life across different communities.