OBRA: The Art of Work

Meera Iyer Food scientist I became vegan around freshman year of high school, so around 1999 or 2000. The options that were there for...

Trisha Hanudel-Lopez San Pedro Soapworks I guess I’ll start with how all this came to be. It started in 2016, even before that… let’s put...

Shadia Derbyshire Muralist I was in kindergarten and you know how you learn about different professions? I remember there were flash...

Annie Spong Intimacy Coordinator I landed in intimacy coordinating five or six years ago at the birth of the Me Too movement. Up until...

Sharniece Chantal Coupes + Pigment How I got into the business that I have now – which is the paint and sip events and doing mobile...

Jennifer Maxwell, ABOC Optician/Supervisor | Eye Care Center, Fullerton, CA I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I was a young mom, I had...

Claudia Endler Jewelry designer I’ve always had an interest in design: clothing, jewelry, shoes, handbags. My mother was very creative...

Where I began was in the mid-eighties, I was working in the jewelry industry in sales in Australia and my background was in opals.

I was 16 when I started to work and I went to retail, like Windsor Fashions and Wild Pair Shoes at The Block, Pier1 Imports, and then I went

When I started modeling, I wanted to do plus size because I was curvy. And I was still the petite plus, I barely had my toe in plus. If you