ydt Team
Tracy Hepler is the Co-Founder of your daily thread, Contributor for Active Lifestyle, 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 on the travel channel with Lauren that focuses on sustainable eco-friendly travel. She really enjoys the show “It’s not easy being green” on the Sundance Channel. Check out her up to date blog about Los Angeles Living @ simple problem, simple solution.
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 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 is ydt‘s Green Living contributor. She has worked at TreePeople, taught community college English, earned an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing and is currently working on a couple of children’s books connecting kids to the natural world. She lives in Silver Lake where she knits, walks and works at home in her pajamas. You can visit Danielle’s eco/conscious living blog at www.lessismorebalanced.com.
Elena Crevello is a Santa Cruz native and the weekend contributor for your daily thread. She attended NYU, where she fell in love with New York and city life in general, and majored in both drama and English. Since moving to Los Angeles she has become involved in the stand up comedy scene, and is currently working on a web-series that will launch in June based on her adventures as an actress in Hollywood. Her main loves in life are writing, acting, and her beautiful little mutt of a dog, Zooey. You can visit her site at www.freckleandbean.com.
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.
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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.
