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My incredible boss has allowed me to live in New Orleans and travel back and forth to NYC for work. I get to be all these different versions of myself at once. I get to be in the office and be my serious, grown-up self and talk about click-through rates, audience conversion, and content strategy and then fly back to New Orleans and be my silly, kid-at-heart self and go to a crawfish boil/bouncy castle/costume party where a tattoo artist/chef/ grandmother asks if I want to date her and her husband. I spend my days figuring out how to make baseball more fun, inclusive, and welcoming to fans of all kinds and my nights dancing to a Zydeco band at a bowling alley. I've met some of the kindest, weirdest, and most interesting friends here, and every single day I walk around my neighborhood and feel incredibly lucky that I get to call this place home. My amazing sister (and best friend), Kate Barton '99, was horrified to discover that I had been asked to talk about MLB and she was not asked to discuss her exceptional and important job as a social worker. I don't get many one-ups on my siblings, so I'll take what I can get. I'm not sure who Trevor Magazine's target audience is, but my instinct is to offer up advice that could be useful to a current student, or even to my former self. e biggest lessons I've learned over the years are: 1) Be brave. is is something my dad always told me. You don't have to be perfect or succeed, but you can stand proud knowing you tried and didn't let fear keep you standing in one place. 2) Surround yourself with people, places, and things that make you feel the most like yourself. ere's nothing that feels better than laying your head down at the end of the day and feeling that you were your authentic self the entire day. 3) Stay silly. Being an adult is exhausting. n is page, clockwise from top: Zoë with the Mississippi River and skyline in the background; Nothing "says" New Orleans more than Mardis Gras—Zoë is in the middle with friends, this past February 2022; Zoë wears a Mets jersey with her friend Maya Klausner '05; Two views of Zoë in New Orleans. e ferris wheel overlooks the French Quarter in NOLA; Zoë (back row, third from left) with her Trevor Day School soccer team.