- Holds a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, New York City.
- Holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the American University of Paris, France.
- Last name is pronounced "by you" with an emphasis on "you".
- Founder and head of independent film production companies M.Y.R.A. Entertainment in New York, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment Europe in London and M.Y.R.A. Entertainment Asia in Singapore.
- A fierce opponent of capital punishment, her video art piece, 'One After', premiered in New York on October 10, 2009, the annual World Day Against the Death Penalty.
- An advocate for nonviolent entertainment, all of her projects exclude graphic violence.
- Interned with Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, Alice Elliott of Welcome Change Productions, in New York after graduating from college.
- Completed additional programs at universities in the US, France, Canada and the UK, including Duke, Parsons School of Design, the University of Toronto, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge and Yale.
- Concluded her undergraduate studies interning for Emmy-nominated archival media researcher, Bonnie Rowan of Bonnie G. Rowan Film Research, at the National Archives, the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
- Member of the German-American Business Council in Washington, D.C.
- Member of the American Council on Germany in New York.
- Member of Atlantik-Brücke in Berlin.
- Founder of the M.Y.R.A. Initiative, a foundation dedicated to supporting children in crisis and advocating nonviolent cinema.
- Member of BAFTA.
- Member of the Producers Guild of America.
- Was named as one of "10 Producers to Watch 2020" by Variety Magazine.
- Founder of M.Y.R.A. Photography, a division of M.Y.R.A. Entertainment.
- Has lived in nine countries on four continents.
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