Trista Mrema

Meet Trista — half Kenyan, half Tanzanian, which, according to her, saves her from being all-American.

Her current present lives include being an improviser for 14 years, an energetic emcee for stand-up shows, storytelling nights, Art Battles, a top improv and stand-up trainer, an on-camera actor and presenter, a role player for corporate trainings, a recovering people pleaser, a social media-dodger, a professional laugher.

Her former past lives include an interactive TV producer for a cable company in Amsterdam, a coordinator in Washington D.C. post-production houses, a film and video grad in D.C., a missile systems engineer in Boston, an electrical engineer grad in LA.