Hi, I'm Karissa — a people- and product-oriented, detail-obsessed consultant, strategist, and creative from Los Angeles. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in English literature and economics. I currently live and work in New York City, where I remain, as ever, a voracious reader, avid vintage shopper, and very fast walker.*
Get in touch at karissafho@gmail.com.
Reading
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The Odyssey, tr. Richmond Lattimore
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The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf
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Happiness and Love (2025) by Zoe Dubno
Listening
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The black sesame/toasted soybean powder/mochi cake that Grace and I made recently
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Reunited with my guitar and it feels so good!
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The benefits of having a young dad (ILY dad)
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Task, a new HBO series I binge-watched with my parents: genuinely excellent!
*I like the first Jason Bourne movie, Pearl Jam, weddings, Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers, Joan Didion's essays, Munch's woodcuts, Magritte's weird neighborhoods, and Cezanne's "unfinished" landscapes. I drink mostly hot water, write long letters to my friends, do my best work very late at night, and am almost always cold. I strongly dislike coffee, slow drivers, sycophants, and spiders.