She is also the communications director for the UC Berkeley NY Alumni Club and on the advisory board for the Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley. She is the founder of the organization Disruptive Technologists in NYC. Formerly a VP of Digital Publishing for an information technology company (Multex.com) and the publishing director for a broker-dealer (Instinet), she has a BA from U.C. Berkeley, a publishing certificate from Stanford University and a summa cum laude Associate of Science degree in Web Development from the International Academy of Design and Technology. Past publications she has created and published include The Internet Analyst (1.5M subscribers), The Telecomm Analyst (1.3M subscribers), and The Tech Briefing (acquired by Reuters).