[1] Raised a Pentecostal.
Father: (gunsmith)
Mother: (beautician)
Sister: Amy (twin)
High School: Bozeman High School, Bozeman, MT
University: BA Modern Languages, Montana State University Bozeman (1993)
University: MA Art History, Art Institute of Chicago (1996)
Teacher: Sarah Lawrence College
The New York Times Columnist (2004-06)
Time Columnist
Salon Columnist (1997-99)
826 Valencia National Advisory Board
Smithsonian Institution intern (1992)
John Kerry for President
Cherokee Ancestry
Swedish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Acrophobia, Claustrophobia, Ophidiophobia, Insomnia, Celiac
TELEVISION
The Daily Show Correspondent (2011-)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Incredibles 2 (5-Jun-2018) [VOICE]
A.C.O.D. (23-Jan-2013)
Please Give (22-Jan-2010)
The Incredibles (27-Oct-2004) · Violet Parr [VOICE]
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (10-Mar-2002) · Herself
Author of books:
Radio On: A Listener's Diary (1997, diary)
Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World (2000, essays)
The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2002, essays)
Assassination Vacation (2005, travelogue)
The Wordy Shipmates (2008, essays)
Unfamiliar Fishes (2011)