I’m Alyssa.

As a highly observant extrovert, I take in the world just as much as I engage with it. Embracing the reality, oddity, and hilarity of how people think and feel is what colors all my work.

I wanted to be Roger Ebert as a kid. I grew up in a huge family of film buffs, watching all the movies a seven-year-old had no business watching.

A few years ago at a Dodgers game, I got caught on the jumbotron reading a poignant memoir as FatBoy Slim’s “Funk Soul Brother” blared in the background.

These are a few of the things I love:

• Meeting a new person and the twists n’ turns of a first conversation

• Wrapping my hands around a mug of diner coffee

• Shuffling to funk/soul music

• Rearranging my furniture every few months