FOUNDERS

Ivy is an award-winning humor writer, comedian and storyteller.  She co-produces Solo Heroes, a forum for theater artists developing solo performance pieces. In 2017, Ivy debuted her solo show Loud, Large and Funny, a musical about being sucker-punched, in her late 50s, during a corporate layoff. If you are a Hudson Valley resident, you may know Ivy from Pros(e) of Pie, a popular storytelling and pie-bake-off.  

Danielle runs dash. - a consultancy that helps companies tell impactful stories. An Emmy award winner and Moth StorySLAM champion, Danielle began her career as an on-air TV reporter in Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Atlanta.  She has written and produced six television documentaries. She is the co-author of the Jewish Family Fun Book series. And Danielle was recently selected as a fellow in the 2023 cohort of the Digital Storytellers Lab to produce an audio documentary called The Nightingale of Iran.