Advisory Board Members
Kate Bernstein
Kate Bernstein is a two-time Emmy Award winning Executive Producer in unscripted television and feature film screenwriter. She has developed, written and produced hundreds of hours of television for MTV, E!, Travel Channel, VH-1, Bravo TV, Lifetime, CMT, Logo, Channel 4 UK, TLC and Metro TV. Kate was the Executive Producer of MTV’s long-running award- winning hit series, MADE, an inspirational coming-of-age docu-drama that paired teenagers with a professional mentor who helped them overcome adversity, work hard to accomplish their dreams and discover who they really are. She was a long-time producer of The Fabulous Life on VH-1 and developed E!’s House of DVF with Diane Von Furstenberg. Most recently, Kate executive produced Bravo TV’s revolutionary new limited series In a Man’s World, the social experiment docuseries follows four women as they morph into men to explore gender bias in their communities. Currently, Kate is writing a film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s first stage play for prolific television and theatre director Scott Ellis (The Marvelous Mrs. Mazel) and producer Laura Rister (The Tale.) Kate received her BA from Swarthmore College and her MA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Brooklyn, New York where she still resides with her two children. Kate sits on the Board of Directors of the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance, a non-profit park conservancy for Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
Alexis Cheung
Alexis Cheung is a nonfiction writer. Her essays and reporting have appeared in The New York Times, T, New York, Vanity Fair, Gossamer, Catapult, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Originally from Hawaii, she currently lives in New York.
Chanice Hughes-Greenberg
Chanice Hughes-Greenberg is a poet, Capricorn, & playlist enthusiast hailing from upstate New York by way of Long Island. Her work has appeared in Studio Magazine, No, Dear Magazine, The Recluse, & other publications. She has participated in readings with The Poetry Project, Cave Canem, Brooklyn Museum, Poets & Writers, & The Freya Project. She is also the creator of Who Is She, a newsletter that celebrates creative women.
Chanice received a BFA in Writing from Pratt Institute & was the recipient of a 2019 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship. She was a finalist for The Poetry Project's 2018-19 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship. Chanice resides in Bed-Stuy with her cat Huxley & drinks martinis with a twist.
Emma Komlos-Hrobsky
Emma Komlos-Hrobsky is a writer, illustrator, and editor based in New York City. For nine years, she served as an editor at Tin House magazine, where her editorial work was honored by Best American Essays, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize. She also founded and directed the Tin House Craft Intensives and edited for Tin House Books. Emma received her BA from Wesleyan and her MFA in fiction writing from The New School, where she later taught as an associate professor. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, Hunger Mountain, Conjunctions, Bookforum, Tin House, Hobart, and The Story Collider. She currently serves as associate editor at Poets & Writers. With the support of a fellowship from the Elizabeth George Foundation, she is at work on a novel about particle physics, family, and the Alps.
Stephanie Jimenez
Stephanie Jimenez is the author of They Could Have Named Her Anything, a novel set in New York City about race, class, and girlhood, and which was published in August of this year. She is a former graduate of Scripps College and in 2012, she traveled to Medellin, Colombia as a Fulbright recipient. She contributed to Routledge Press's anthology Latina Outsiders Remaking Identity which was also published earlier this year. She is proud to have been raised in Queens, New York, where she currently still lives.
Jess McIntosh
Jess McIntosh is a Democratic strategist, CNN commentator, and co-host of the award-winning SiriusXM radio show Signal Boost with Zerlina and Jess. Jess has also written extensively about politics and gender for Shondaland.com, ELLE, Lenny Letter, CNN, The American Independent and more. In 2016, she served as a senior communications advisor for Hillary Clinton, who received 3 million more votes than Donald Trump and really should be the President. Prior to that honor, she was the Vice President of Communications for EMILY’s List, an organization devoted to electing pro-choice progressive women. She was the first campaign and Senate spokesperson for Al Franken, helped with the elections of New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and worked countless other jobs at all levels of party politics. Jess is a graduate of New York University, where she earned a M.A. she has never found occasion to use in English Literature. She currently resides in Brooklyn with the boy she's had a crush on since 1996 and their rescue pup, which is a pretty good way to ride out the Trump presidency.
Denne Michele Norris
Denne Michele Norris is the author of the chapbook Awst Collection—Dennis Norris II, named a best book of 2018 by Powell's. A recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Tin House, VCCA, and Kimbilio Fiction, her stories have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named a finalist for the Best Small Fictions Prize. She currently serves as Assistant Fiction Editor at The Rumpus and co-host of the critically acclaimed podcast Food 4 Thot. Based in Brooklyn, she is hard at work on her debut novel.
You can learn more at www.dennemichele.com
Neda Toloui-Semnani
Neda Toloui-Semnani is an award-winning print and television journalist for VICE News. Her work has appeared in various publications, including The Washington Post, Kinfolk, New York, LA Review of Books, The Baffler, and The Week among others. Her work was also been featured in The Rumpus and on This American Life. She holds a Masters of Science in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Masters in Fine Arts in Nonfiction from Goucher College. She was named a 2017 NYFA fellow in Nonfiction and a 2018 Logan Fellow in Nonfiction.