Jill Chodorov Kaminsky

Jill Chodorov Kaminsky

Freelance Journalist/Scriptwriter
The Washington Post

Full Bio
At just 12 years old, I told myself that nobody was going to tell me what I was worth. I'll decide for myself what I am worth. That adolescent determination has taken me down many bumpy paths. Yet, those treacherous paths have made me stronger and given me the kind of confidence I needed to achieve my goals.

My career path has been haphazard, random, accidental, adrift, always out of control and headed toward disaster, and that is putting it mildly. I can t even begin to count all the jobs I have blown through like the Tasmanian Devil, leaving a lot of pissed off people in my wake. I am not proud of this.

On the upside, throughout my checkered past, I have never been arrested for committing a crime (I mean, I was never charged with a crime) thrown to the wolves, yelled at (ok, on a few occasions, I did get read the riot act) tortured, whipped across the hands with a ruler or eaten by sharks. I did, however, sleep with a scorpion while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, and I witnessed a man use a machete to chop off his brother s hands. It must have been some disagreement.

What I learned about myself along the way, is that, with every knock down, I was able to get back up. I never gave up on my 12-year-old dream. I promise you, if you go after your dreams, none of these terrible things will happen to you. If it does happen to you, I will refund you for your time in reading my bio.

In my sordid, and sometimes honorable past, I have served as a Peace Corp volunteer, sold cemetery plots, wrote speeches for the President of the United States, invested in real estate, launched and sold a fashion mail order catalog for petite women, invested in tech startups, invested in crypto currency. I studied to be a psychic, wrote a novel about the funeral industry and (there are more, but I forget).

Today, I am an investor in Broadway productions. I write freelance for The Washington Post and I just completed a scriptwriting class at Columbia University. My sources of income and extracurricular interests have been diverse, to say the least.

I am currently writing two original TV pilots, a one-act play and a book about getting married for the first time at 50. I know, I know - I look like I m only 25. I am told that all the time.

I am currently a volunteer mentor with Girls Write Now - a nonprofit that works with underserved girls to find their voices through the power of writing and community.

Don t give up on your dream. You will be amazed at what a little guts and determination can do for YOU

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