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 Scrapbook (2025) by Heather Clark
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Gingko Season (2025) by Naomi Xu Elegant
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Bug Hollow (2025) by Michelle Huneven
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Audition (2025) by Katie Kitamura
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Iron John (1990) by Robert Bly
Listening
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It's FALL!
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The whole menu at Sunn's (LES)
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Some incredible vintage finds recently
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This Kandinsky painting that made me weirdly emotional when I saw it at the Met
*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.


