In our visits to the homes of all our featured passersby, we love hearing about the records they cherish and listening to the playlists they curate. For our latest Meet The Makers, we caught up with mastering engineer Heba Kadry.
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Meet Gabrielle Herbst
in Musician
Herbst’s experience writing for chamber orchestra and mixed instrumentation inspired her to develop a repertoire of short-form, vocal-centric compositions under the name GABI.
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Meet Momo Ishiguro
in Musician
Meet NYC passerby, Momo Ishiguro. By day she works at Printed Matter, Inc., the non-profit organization for artists' books and related publications, where she is in charge of fundraising, by night she works on music.
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Meet Anahita Tajmaher
in Chef
Meet NYC passerby, Anahita Tajmaher. She currently the in-house catering manager at a multifunctional photography studio in NYC but is making the transition to focus solely on a career in food.
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Meet Lexi Cunningham
Meet NYC passerby, Lexi Cunningham, the social media and digital marketing manager for New York's famed Magnolia Bakery.
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Meet Kristi Garced
in Writer, Editor, Copywriter
Meet NYC Passerby, Kristi Garced, Fashion Market Editor at WWD
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Meet Beth Garrabrant
in Photographer
Meet NYC passerby, Beth Garrabrant, photographer and photo director at Nylon Magazine after working at Travel + Leisure Magazine where she discovered her talents.
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Meet Katy Hallowell
Katy is an NYC based location scout and writer. Born in Connecticut, she moved to Toronto and then to San Francisco before moving back to the east coast. Avid film-goer, Rolling Stones lover, reader and explorer. Occasional trespasser.
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Meet Mariana Orkenyi
Mariana Orkenyi is a Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher. Her work is to guide through meditation and integrated teachings bringing clarity, awareness, and support for people to go within and expand. She holds a masters degree in Arts and Cultural Management, a Meditation Teacher Certification through Ananda School of Yoga and Meditation and in Mindfulness through UCLA. She is currently studying Contemplative Psychotherapy at Nalanda Institute. Mariana leads courses, guided meditations, private sessions and talks all over the world. Mariana was born and raised in Brazil, lived in Mexico City and Barcelona and studied with some of the most important leading masters in spirituality and meditation.
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Meet Jeni Ni
in Entrepreneur
Jeni is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of frilly, an e-commerce site that specializes in customizable fashion. Born and raised in Boston, she now lives in n Downtown LA with her dog, Toby, in a loft where she loves to host dinner parties for her friends.
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Meet Heba Kadry
Mastering Engineer Heba Kadry was born in Egypt and grew up listening to early 90s indie shoegaze records whenever she could get her hands on them. She works at Timeless Mastering in Bushwick in the studio she physically helped build.
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Meet Alaa Balkhy
Alaa was born in Jeddah and raised in Montreal. Her passion for art developed with her changing surroundings. She founded the brand Fyunka and is currently working on the launch of a cultural publication she co-founded called Minaa Zine.
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Meet Jessie Webster
in Photographer
A Los Angeles based editorial and commercial photographer specializing in lifestyle, travel and interiors. Her ongoing passion for aesthetics and storytelling, combined with years of studying portraiture and landscapes, have helped Jessie create her distinct style.
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Meet Nada Alic
Nada is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor, by way of Toronto, and the author of Future You, a collection of short fiction. By day, she manages editorial for Society6, a print-on-demand marketplace for 200k artists.
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Meet Alyssa Coscarelli
in Writer, Influencer
Alyssa Coscarelli is a fashion writer, consultant, and influencer based in the East Village, New York City. After working as an editor for Refinery29 for 5 years, Alyssa recently took the leap to give the freelance life a whirl, and in addition to contributing to various digital publications, consulting for up-and-coming New York indie brands, she's working on launching her own online platform in the coming months. She's an impulsive shopper with a love for vintage and indie brands specifically, and can never pass up the perfect pair of Levi's (even though she owns more than any one human should).
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Meet Ivy Weinglass
in Ceramist
After graduating from NYU where she studied Media and Marketing, she worked in music marketing before trying her hand at wardrobe styling, and eventually, prop styling. These days, she focuses most of her time to ceramics and other crafts.
Read MoreJewelry Designer Laura Lombardi
in Jeweler, Entrepreneur
The sculptural design of a Laura Lombardi piece is instantly recognizable dangling from the earlobes or hung around the neck of many a Passerby. The designer's eponymous line has attracted the attention of an ever-growing number of fans, including us.
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Meet Jessica Comingore
Born and raised in LA, Jessica Comingore is a self-taught graphic designer and the founder of The Elysian Edit, a design, culture, and lifestyle website dedicated to the art of refined living.
Read MoreKalen Kaminski of Upstate
We recently met with Upstate designer, Kalen Kaminski — whose work has been featured on a number of Passerbuys profiles. This Greenpoint-based tie-dye artist has built up a niche following for her vintage-inspired designs.
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Meet Sabrina Diaz
in Entrepreneur
Sabrina Diaz grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey. She describes her high school as “your quintessential and stereotypical school,” closely resembling Mean Girls. There was even a rumor going around that the movie was based off her school. By her junior year, tired of of that scene, Sabrina took any opportunity she could to get out of her school and her hometown, often ending up in the city. She knew that New York was where she wanted to be for college, and started at LIM before moving to FIT, where she studied marketing and business.
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