When I moved here, I did what most people do. I joined organizations, showed up to networking events, tried to find my people. Some of those groups were enormous. Others were narrowly focused on professional connections. I'd leave most of them feeling… generally fine. Not worse, not really better. Just fine. The conversations stayed surface-level. The rooms all started to blur together.
What I actually wanted was simple: a group of women I was genuinely excited to see after a long day. Not something that felt like an obligation I'd scheduled three weeks ago. I wanted to feel like I belonged somewhere specific, not just somewhere adjacent to my industry. I also wanted something where I could grow professionally, but did not feel transactional.
I couldn't find that, so I built it.
In the fall of 2025, I hosted the first Arcana dinner: twelve women around a table in my Brooklyn apartment lounge, a multi-course meal by Chef Diana Tandia (the chef behind Berber Foods, featured in the Times, the New Yorker, Eater). No panels, no pitches. Just dinner and real conversation.
Afterward, people started texting each other. Grabbing coffee. Sharing deals. That didn't happen because of any structure I put in place — it just happened naturally.
Arcana is what I'm building from that night forward: a community for women with ambitious careers who want real friendships to match. Events are small, held in spaces that feel like somewhere, and designed around an experience worth having — not just attending to get their next job.
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