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Our Team
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Our Team
The ydt team consists of Angelenos with a passion for conscious, green living. They all have a unique spectrum of projects going on that you should definitely check out.
Tracy Hepler is the Co-Founder of your daily thread, and serves as the Content Editor. She has a degree from UC Santa Barbara in Anthropology and Communications and has taught English in Spain, sold pub crawls to tourists on Las Ramblas, and worked as a PA for TV and documentary films. She is currently working on a documentary about her Mother’s journey to America 30 years ago. She is a resident of the Fairfax District and enjoys writing, traveling, painting, cooking, learning about green living, and exploring everything LA has to offer. When she grows up she wants to be a documentary film maker and host a show that focuses on sustainable eco-friendly travel. Follow her L.A. adventures on facebook, twitter, and the Huffington Post.
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Lauren Johanson is the Co-Founder of your daily thread and serves as Webmaster and Director of Marketing and Sales. Born and raised on a sheep farm in New Jersey, she transplanted to SoCal as a kid. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Richmond (Virginia) with a degree in Leadership Studies and Political Science. Through her studies, she became interested in issues of social justice and sustainable development. She continued to explore these concepts through her year-long travels around the world and then through her work promoting Fair Trade at Ten Thousand Villages. She now owns her own business called Chivas Skin Care with her mother. They hand make all-natural goat milk soaps and other skin care products using Fair Trade Shea Butter and fresh goat milk (they actually own their own goats and milk them daily). She enjoys yoga, salsa dancing, hiking and throwing parties. Her favorite boards games are “Catch Phrase” and “Time’s Up.” When her back heals, she’ll be ready for monthly Sloshball tournaments again.
Danielle Davis YDT Green Living Contributor and Editor from Silver Lake. Danielle became a simple, green liver by way of reading Barbara Kingsolver and shopping at the farmer’s market with her good pal, Anna (and was first dubbed a treehugger by her family long before then). She became a writer by making up stories in her room as a kid. Always with one foot in the environment and one in the world of writing, Danielle has worked as an educator at TreePeople and taught English to junior highers and college students. She has an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing and writes an eco/conscious living blog at www.lessismorebalanced.com. Currently she’s got a stack of children’s book manuscripts connecting the youngest readers to the natural world and is working on another stack of pages that will be her first novella. Read about her “less is more” philosophy in a recent article..
Connie Wu is a SoCal native, but she’ll never get used to L.A. traffic. She received her bachelor’s degree in communication studies and sociology at UCLA and has experience in both consumer products marketing and online marketing. Her favorite food is cupcakes, her favorite board game is Scrabble and her favorite dinosaur is the Apatosaurus. In her free time, Connie enjoys discovering dive bars and new restaurants, poking around interesting boutiques, watching movies, and curling up with a good book.
Sarah Shewey is the owner of Pink Cloud Events, a full-service event production company specializing in eco-friendly resources. After graduating USC with a degree in Communication and Film/Televsion Production, Sarah has coordinated hundreds of events around the world – calling Los Angeles and Barcelona “home”. Her favorite things to do in Los Angeles include cruising on her Schwinn “Pea Picker”, playing fetch with her cat Sakura Chan, staying up late in the private karaoke rooms of Koreatown, taking the Metro with no destination, and of course throwing a killer party.
Jaclyn Mullen is a true “Jac-lyn of All Trades.” From acting to business consulting to writing, she tackles any and every job possible due to her curious nature. Originally from Northern Virginia/Washington, D.C, she attended the University of Miami on a Vocal Performance scholarship. While majoring in Music Business, Jaclyn was classically trained as an Opera singer and served as the Music Entertainment Industry Student Association Public Relations officer. After graduation, she ventured into a career in Human Resources/Risk Management Consulting before relocating to Los Angeles in 2006. She hopes to one day have a star on the walk of fame. In the meantime, you can catch her marketing several of her clients including Jenny Wax, a Skin Care Studio in Santa Monica. Between promoting her business and commercial and movie shoots, she enjoys dancing, training for marathons, volunteering, and traveling.
Joli Selten is a freelance writer, photographer and poet based in Valley Village where she is plotting and planning her Summer Supper Club. She is a mother, a dancer, and a foodie who instigates change in her home and community for what she calls the “Revolution of Consciousness” currently underway. She holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Oregon and has been published in Flaunt, Shape, Bon Appétit, the LA Times, Press Democrat, Orange Coast Magazine, Minnesota Law & Politics, URB, and many other magazines and newspapers. She is also a regular volunteer for local organizations like Food Not Bombs and music/art festivals like Lightning in a Bottle.
Pooja Jhobalia is an intern at YDT and currently employed by the City of Irvine in their Fiscal and Environmental Programs division. Ambitious and creative, she holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Sciences from UC Riverside. Her parents migrated from India, making her the first American generation in her family. She is captivated by her cultural heritage, but enjoys being around a world of diversity. She has embraced traveling, reading and spending time with her family and friends to be her most favorite things. She is enamored with European chic design and shopping for the next item of sparkle and flair for her wardrobe.
Amy Vig is proud to share her tasty and healthy recipes on YDT. She has always had a passion for cooking and eating healthy and is excited to be able to share her knowledge with others. Right now, she’s refining her cooking skills through a natural foods cooking program and is really looking forward to further broadening her horizons. If you’re interested in trying more of her recipes please visit her blog at www.deliciousbynature.com.
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Vanessa Crocini is an Italian documentary filmmaker. She graduated from the University of Bologna and was an exchange student at UC Santa Barbara where she met YDT’s co-founder Tracy Hepler in a screen writing class. After working on Italian movies sets as a production coordinator, she came back to California to attend the UCLA Extension Program where she focused on documentaries. She directed and edited a web series called High School Love for the Italian Bonsai TV. She has also shot spec commercials for Current TV and worked on music videos as a Production Coordinator and Second Unit Director. She is currently shooting a documentary about a senior gated community in Orange County. She enjoys traveling, taking pictures, eating delicious international food and of course watching documentaries to discover new places and stories from around the world. Vanessa became interested in environmental issues after watching the powerful documentaries Addicted to Plastic and An Inconvenient Truth.
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