Episode 14: Cindy Appel
Home Town: Arlington, VA Current Town: Los Angeles, CA What are you working on now?: Star Trek: Picard on Paramount + Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: I grew up in the DC area, so always had a lot of friends from other countries. Some were from financially struggling immigrant families, some were ambassadors' kids who were used to a certainly worldly privilege. But I remember a million little culture clash moments where I realized my American way of doing things didn't have to be the "norm." Some people eat dinner at 10pm. Some people take siestas. Socialism can be great. We don't have to buy so much stuff. A lot of people speak more than two languages. Work isn't everything. Old people are valuable. True "freedom" is never really what society tells you it is. All of these little moments opened my mind and heart to a bigger world out there I was dying to see. It made me feel so