Montana Agte-Studier, Co-Founder

Montana grew up singing to her treed cats in the woods of Connecticut, imagining rumbles with pumas while watching her kid-sneaker-clad feet jump over lichen-covered rocks in Colorado, listening to the coyote howls get closer under blazing sundogs in Arizona, and catching snakes in the dappled light of Upstate New York and the Thousand Islands, all the while playing flute—for fun, for competitions, for All-State, for orchestras and bands, and for the admissions board of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, where she spent the next 5 years debauching her classical training and finding her own voice in grungy practice rooms, rain-slicked New York streets, and hole-in-the-wall music clubs and bars. These days she finds herself entrenched in the mysterious devilry of novel-writing, is leaning toward trying her hand at marble-sculpting, and is often caught standing at her window watching the hawks, falcons, and single engine planes swoop up and down the Hudson, as a means of studying for her private pilot's license. 

Nick Cardoni, Co-Founder

Nick wrote his college essay about the importance of humor, at one point declaring in all (hand-written) caps that 'HOMER SIMPSON IS UNDENIABLY THE FUNNIEST MAN ALIVE.' The admissions board at Brown found this amusing, or didn't really read it, and, four years later, Nick managed to walk away with some frisbee savvy and a degree in Psychology. Not knowing what to do next, Nick worked in a law firm, sold German motorcycle parts to American widget-fiends, consulted on indoor hydroponic gardening (yes, these will help your... tomatoes), learned to brew beer from grain, rebuilt espresso machines, poured halfway decent latte art, and all the while tried to play piano like Bill-Evans-if-the-members-of-The-Roots-recruited-him-for-their-Led-Zeppelin-tribute-band-side-project.