My congenital, progressive hearing loss taught me to walk into any room and instantly figure out how to successfully move through it. Later, an innate understanding of human connection + relentless stubbornness + obscenely caffeinated beverages led to great success as a respected television producer. Just one of those projects (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) gave me a Ph.D. in solving impossible problems on a loud, ticking clock.
I built a career out of making the unmakeable happen. But none of that could protect me when my city went up in flames.
THERE’S A PROBLEM.
During the 2025 LA wildfires, I learned first-hand why people with hearing loss are 4x more likely to die in disasters. Current assistive tech is outdated, unreliable and expensive. This separate-but-equal approach to alerts is dangerous for people like me and stifles innovation for everyone.
Until now.
HERE’S THE SOLUTION.
Before the fires were out, I began collaborating with engineers, designers, audiologists and startup consultants to build Trembo, a haptic device designed to save the lives of 1.5 billion people like me while enriching daily life for every user, hearing or not. It’s not assistive tech. It’s just freaking tech.
We’re currently developing our MVP and opening our pre-seed round. The market opportunity is massive, the margins strong and the solution deceptively simple.
After two decades of international governing bodies discussing but failing to fix this problem, all it took was a climate disaster affecting the severely deaf, creative leader who trained her whole life to solve it.
