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CLEANING UP Kristin Boston on life after La La Land BY ALISON BAILIN BATZ
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PHOTO BY MARK MORGAN
hile in second grade at Kiva Elementary School in Paradise Valley, Kristin Boston was asked to write a story. “After I turned it in, the teacher called my mother – but I wasn’t in trouble!” Boston says. “She told my mom that I used quotation marks for dialogue, something we were never taught. I just picked it up on my own.” Her love affair with writing only grew from there, earning her degrees in both English and creative writing as well as the opportunity to take screenwriting classes at UCLA. Boston’s writing prowess would eventually bring her to Hollywood, where she worked at Universal Studios on the 1990s classic TV show Quantum Leap and as a writer for Los Angeles’ Easy Reader News. “The only thing missing was home,” says Boston, who was by then a mother of two and ready to make her way back to the Valley. And she would do just that, working in communications roles with the East Valley Tribune, iHeartMedia and the Phoenix Suns before recently taking a position as the director of marketing for Zerorez of Phoenix, an environmentally friendly cleaning company that provides an alternative to harsh chemicals using a revolutionary non-toxic, water-based cleaning agent called Empowered Water. “It’s a dirty job (literally!), but I am so happy doing it – and to be home.”
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From Hollywood to house cleaning? Yes! In my role, I get to help develop the strategic direction – the script – for the brand. Between our growth (despite the recession), our corporate giving programs and the unconventional way we clean, there is a lot to write and talk about. Prove it. How about this: Over the next few months, we are bringing in elementary school students from across the Valley for a series of field trips to learn all about the science behind what we do and how we do it. Writing the curriculum is my current labor of love and not that different from being on a sci-fi TV set most days. Any crazy stories from the set? Believe it or not, the crazier stories came while working for the magazine. From covering beached whales to hipster artists to the pingpong champion of the world, every day had a little bit of crazy, mostly in a good way. SO SCOTTSDALE! |
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| OCTOBER 2016
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