Growing up between New York City and red-desert Arizona, Elise H. Greven was a nature-loving punk rock teen drawn to stories of courageous real-life rebels who stood up to the system and demanded change – often with an environmental focus. She graduated from the NYU Graduate Film Program and pursued a career in writing and producing documentaries, before pivoting to narrative television writing. She’s been a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and participated in the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab, as well as numerous other awards.