Bethany Joy Carlson is a Seattle native and has enjoyed living and working in the UK, Spain, New Zealand, and Peru, as well as around the US, before moving to Charlottesville in 2010. Bethany was a NASA researcher before serving some of the largest institutional investors in the world with Mercer Investment Consulting. She is an entrepreneur, and her latest venture, The Artist’s Partner, helps authors, musicians and filmmakers become publishers and producers. Bethany is also a casting associate with Arvold, casting film and television such as Lincoln, Turn, and Ithaca.