Deb grew up in the ’burbs of SoCal, where smog-alerts ruled school recess, and the orange groves were ultimately replaced with strip malls. After an underwhelming four years of college, she took the freeway to “Hollywood” to work for an A-list movie director, co-founding and writing for a theatrical sketch comedy troupe (with all sold-out shows), and then becoming a TV comedy writer. When traffic jams and athleisurewear became too much to bear, she hightailed it to New York City and took her words to the stage, writing a published one-act play and sold-out one-person performances in several theater festivals, including the NYC Fringe Festival and the LA Women's Theater Festival. Her last one —after realizing she could use her powers for good—was "Waste Management: The Show!" (in which she gives herself 49 days to save the planet) as an ode to one of her true loves: recycling. And because it’s always something with her, this in turn led her to a program in Environmental Conservation & Sustainability at Columbia University, academic forums, Congressional town halls, compost facilities . . . and, finally, a book that's in the works. While she’s been writing the latter, Deb’s moved from NYC to a small village in the Hudson Valley, tracking her attempts at saving the world (or at least getting people to use less plastic) on her highly personal and quirky—but educational—blog, CitizenDeb.com.