Leslie Marie Rodriguez
Writer / Creative Director 

I remember locking myself in a room painted such a bold shade of green it could choke you. My mother had read somewhere that green was the most relaxing color (but which shade, exactly???). That aggresively vibrant room housed the most coveted item of our home: a computer. Its CPU tower was shrouded by an urban myth that some kid, fresh out of the shower, had once powered on its chunky switch with a damp foot and electrocuted himself. So I made sure to always boot it up with a swell kick and a thick sock.
 

My tween musings were the ingredients I spat into my cauldron: that beautiful, pale gray computer. Paint was my canvas and the Windows Sound Recorder my radio booth, where I often conjured ads for invisible listeners to buy offbeat items like mole con pollo pizza (I mean, I’d eat it).
 

I grew up in semi-modern Mexico, then migrated to rural Louisiana as a pubescent—a place that, objectively, might be one of the strangest corners of America. Moving there likely amplified what my mom would call my “rogue wiring”. Our new neighbors were cows.
 

As an adult (which I am, kind of?), she probably never could've guessed I’d end up leading teams of creative humans to have fun while driving revenue. Alas, shaped by John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces and inspired by Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich and Oprah, here I am: just a girl lucky enough to feel like she hasn’t worked a day in her life. A girl who once choked on shamrock green and never looked back. A girl who likes writing, Furbies, and aRt. A girl with a proud mom.