RESUME
A brief overview of 10+ years in digital media: engaging audiences and crafting strategies for global entertainment brands, leading award-winning teams, and championing a culture of curiosity, enthusiasm, innovation, equity, inclusion, and empathy.
WORK
Director, Brand Social
Paramount+
ViacomCBS | 2022 - present
Social Media & Audience Development Lead
Flagship Brand Team (@Disney, @Pixar, @StarWars)
The Walt Disney Company | 2017 - 2022
Social Media Lead, E! News
NBCUniversal | 2013 - 2016
Community Manager
LoveIt | 2012
Interactive New Media Coordinator
EQAL | 2012
Entertainment Media Fellow
GLAAD | 2011
Operations Specialist
Edward Jones | 2008 - 2010
AWARDS
Webby Awards
Best Social Video, Culture & Lifestyle: Disney, 2021
Best Social Video, Arts & Entertainment: Disney, 2021
Best Social Media: Pixar, 2021
People’s Voice Winner: Pixar, 2021
Best Use of Social Video: Disney Storytime 2020
People's Voice Winner: Disney+ Moving Day Stunt 2019
Best Social Media: Star Wars 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
Best Celebrity Fan Site: E!, 2014, 2015
Shorty Awards
Best Use of Facebook Video: Disney
Best Brand on Twitter finalist: E! News, 2014
Best News Twitter Feed finalist: E! News, 2014
Shareablee
2020 Social Media Brand Leader
Streamy Awards
Best Multiplatform Campaign:
Telly Awards
Silver Winner: Cooking with Pixar
Cynopsis Model D Digital Awards
Best Social TV Service: E!'s Live from the Red Carpet
NBCUniversal
2015 GEM Award
GEM - Going the Extra Mile - is the NBCUniversal employee recognition program that recognizes and rewards employees for significant accomplishments or exemplary behavior that reflects the company credo.
EDUCATION
B.A. English, Political Science
Arizona State University
Executive Certificate: Fostering Diversity & Inclusion
Yale School of Management, 2020
WRITING
The Candidly - personal essays published by the wellness brand for people who sort of hate wellness brands.
E! News - celebrity interviews, social media recaps, and more published at eonline.com
GLAAD Blog - coverage of LGBTQ+ representation in the media with daily watch guides and editorial columns.
GLAAD Network Responsibility Index Report 2011 - The GLAAD NRI is an evaluation of the quantity and quality of images of LGBTQ+ people, characters, and narratives on television. It is intended to serve as a road map toward increasing fair, accurate, and inclusive media representations.
FUN FACTS
• Last name pronounced PER-SHAH-FEE.
• Fluent in English; "introverted teenager" level of proficiency in Spanish; toddler level proficiency in French & Farsi.
• Mom of two boys, which means she can survive on 3 hours of sleep if needed (which is often).
• Weakest member of the Islands Elementary Juggling Club 1996-1998.
• Captain of the Academic Decathlon team in high school: won 1st place in Speech, Interview, and Essay at State. (If they'd given out last place prizes, she would have won that the year that Oceanography was the Super Quiz topic as she has a life-long phobia of deep water.)
• Recovering from Eldest Daughter of Immigrant Parent Syndrome.
• Big fan of labels and identities: INFP, Persian & Mexican, queer, millennial, suburban mom, 2w3, Capricorn with Sagittarius moon and Leo rising, etc.
• Has a framed art print of Carrie Fisher on her nightstand. (It's not autographed or anything, she just really loves her.)
• Loves em dashes almost as much as she loves parenthetical (and uses both—as you can see—excessively).
• Most frequently emojis: 😵💫😬😮💨🎉🗣
• Party tricks: A+ whistler, can say the alphabet backwards, makes the best G&T you'll ever have in your life.
• Still wants to be Indiana Jones when she grows up.