Draft:Ivy Sunderji
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Ivy Sunderji (born February 22, 1985, in Moscow, Idaho, as Ivy Mariel Pruss.[1]) is an American television writer[2], professor[3], and evidential psychic medium.[4]
Film and Television Career
[edit]Sunderji is known for writing Greenleaf and Delilah, both on OWN. She was one of the five inaugural recipients of The Universal Writers Fellowship in 2014.[5] She penned the 2017 "Hit List" feature, All My Friends.[6]
She is a professor of screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and an educational labor rights activist[7].
She serves as a trustee of the WIFI film festival at Washburn University and sponsors the annual screenwriting award, named in her honor, at the festival.
Personal Life
[edit]Sunderji grew up in Nampa, Idaho, Spokane, WA, Roanoke, VA, and Las Vegas, NV, where she attended The Meadows School on a scholarship. She studied art at Interlochen Arts Camp and won the Maddy Summer Artist Award in 2001. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of The Stonefence Review and participated as a member of the women's crew team. She earned an MFA in screenwriting from USC's School of Cinematic Arts.
Sunderji is the sister of Las Vegas-based tattoo artist and paragliding accident survivor Amy Parker.[8][9]
Sunderji was the life partner of Los Angeles-based psychiatrist, Dr. Jehangeer Sunderji, who died in a surfing accident in Ventura, CA in 2021.[10][11][12]
Her grandfather, Dr. Gilbert Ford[13], served as President of Northwest Nazarene University and worked as a physicist on the Manhattan Project during WWII. Her aunt is writer and professor, Val Brelinski, author of The Girl Who Slept With God[14], and her mother, Dr. Constance Ford, is a professor, essayist, and fiction writer.
Grief Work and Advocacy
[edit]Sunderji is an evidential psychic medium[15] and an advocate for public education about the existing body of scientific research about mediumship. She has participated as a research subject in mediumship studies and supports its integration and study in the fields of clinical therapy, psychiatry, and psychology for its potential as an alternative form of grief care.[16]
She and her sister, Amy, are co-founders of Medium Ink, a novel grief care venture based out of Las Vegas that provides medium readings and memorial tattoos together.
- ^ "IN THE MATTER OF: IVY MARIEL PRUSS".
- ^ "Ivy Mariel Pruss". IMDB.
- ^ "Ivy Sunderji". USC Employee Directory.
- ^ "The Medium Speaks". Mental State: Straight Talk About All Things Mental Health.
- ^ "Universal Names 5 Writers To First-Ever Diversity Fellowship". Deadline. 7 May 2014.
- ^ "The 2017 Hit List Stats". Tracking Board. 6 December 2017.
- ^ "USC School of Cinematic Arts adjunct professors march for union recognition". Annenberg Media. 30 November 2023.
- ^ "'Miracle' survival after paragliding crash south of Las Vegas". Las Vegas Review Journal.
- ^ "Las Vegas tattoo artist survives paragliding accident". News 3 Las Vegas.
- ^ "Los Angeles psychiatrist identified as victim in fatal Ventura surfing accident". VC Star.
- ^ "In memoriam: Jehangeer Sunderji, MD, 44".
- ^ "Jehangeer Sunderji". Legacy.com.
- ^ "Gilbert Clayton Ford". Legacy.com.
- ^ "'The Girl Who Slept with God': turmoil in a God-fearing family". The Seattle Times.
- ^ "Conversations with a Medium". Apple Podcasts.
- ^ "Conscious Grief Series". 26 June 2022.