About Me

I’ve always been drawn to the sky, and the far horizon where courage and freedom meet.

My writing invites us to trade inherited scripts for lives that feel more alive, awake and free.

As a founder and futurist, I create spaces that help us leap from doing what’s expected to doing what matters.

For two decades, I’ve built organizations that accompany young people on the cusp of adulthood, turning this transition into transformation. As the founder of Global Citizen Year, I supported thousands of emerging adults in leaving home to find their people, power and purpose.

Today, at The Flight School, we’re bringing this work to the size of a generation. Through our courses and global community, we’re seeding a murmuration — a growing force skilled with uncertainty, animated by possibility, and ready to lead from fear to freedom.

I’ve been fortunate to share my ideas in outlets like The New York Times, NPR, and PBS, and at gatherings like TED, Aspen and the Milken Institute. I’ve been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People, Goldman Sachs’ Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and as an Ashoka Fellow. I’m currently an Advisor to Harvard Business School and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford.

These credentials have opened doors and made my work legible. What makes it trustworthy is what I’ve learned from life itself.

I live in Berkeley (born and raised), where my husband Joel keeps me grounded, and my sons, Rio and Luca, remind me that aliveness is our most precious and regenerative resource.

In another lifetime, I might have been a forest monk, rabbi, or rockstar. In this one, I’m remembering how to fly.

This newsletter is an invitation to pause, look up, and leap together.

I’m writing for those of us who sprinted from classrooms to boardrooms — checking all the boxes, climbing all the ladders — only to find ourselves quietly asking, is this it?

For any of us longing for presence and purpose beyond the trance of productivity and perfection.

And for all of us ready to rewrite the rules, redefine success, and reorient our lives — and our world — toward something more hopeful and humane.

Here you’ll find: