About
NYC-based | 2 YouTube channels | combined 9+ million views
While my work covers a wide range of topics, they all have one thing in common: I am fascinated by our wonderful, diverse world, and I strive to encourage others to get out there, learn, and EXPLORE!
Professional background:
10+ years’ experience in television production and post-production (NatGeo, Discovery Channel, Lifetime, Animal Planet)
8+ years’ experience in web content production
Since starting my first YouTube channel in 2015, I have produced content in 15+ countries worldwide, presented at live speaking engagements, as well as been interviewed on live television and radio.
Some more about me:
I’m first-generation American, born and raised in New York State. My mother was born in Cuba and my father was born in the Soviet Union. Early exposure to such different backgrounds instilled in me a deep-rooted appreciation for different cultures, languages, and travel.
Growing up I was obsessed with The X-Files. I credit the show with inspiring my lifelong fascination with all things unusual and mysterious, as well igniting my passion for investigation and imagination.
My life goal is to live in a castle.
Favorite thing to do in a new city?
Wander around drinking coffee.
Best travel memory?
Holding a Norman sculpture from the 1100s with my bare hands, attending a party in a Scottish castle, interviewing a woman in a nearly-abandoned Estonian town, visiting the Capuchin Catacombs in Sicily, boating in an underground lake in Transylvania, channeling my inner Anne Boleyn at Hampton Court Palace, the list goes on…
If I weren’t doing this, I’d be a…
Museum curator, archaeologist, Victorian/Medieval/Renaissance/Tudor historian, cryptozoologist, professional horror movie watcher.