Coming from a family of artists and activists, the arts and community have always been an integral part of Zoë’s life. She spent all of high school volunteering for the Community Days at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and two years volunteering with the fair trade store, Ten Thousand Villages. In college, she was a tutor and a teacher’s aide, as well as a liaison for an after school tutoring program and the Smith College Community Service Office.

She has interned with the Hartford-based nonprofit Open Communities Alliance, the City of Hartford Department of Development Services, and Virginia Beach City Public Schools Office of Community Engagement and Education Foundation.

In addition to this work, Zoë is the lead vocalist and songwriter for You’re Not Listening! brass band and Bandshes, two Connecticut-based all-women’s music groups. Bandshes hit their fifteen minutes of fame with their song, “Lost Cities,” which plays twice in the internationally-released movie, Unfriended. Through diligent promotion, “Lost Cities” has been heard or downloaded over 1.5 million times.

Zoë is a Hartford native. She attended the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, where she majored in creative writing. She has a B.A. from Smith College in Sociology and Urban Studies. She’s also taken classes in creative writing and international politics at NYU, and a course in urbanism and architecture at the Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid. She just finished a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems through the University of Connecticut.