Draft:Ivy Sunderji

Ivy Sunderji (born February 22, 1985, in Moscow, Idaho, as Ivy Mariel Pruss. ) is an American television writer, professor , and evidential psychic medium.

Film and Television Career
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. She penned the 2017 "Hit List" feature, All My Friends.

She is a professor of screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and an educational labor rights activist.

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
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.

Sunderji was the life partner of Los Angeles-based psychiatrist, Dr. Jehangeer Sunderji, who died in a surfing accident in Ventura, CA in 2021.

Her grandfather, Dr. Gilbert Ford, 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, and her mother, Dr. Constance Ford, is a professor, essayist, and fiction writer.

Grief Work and Advocacy
Sunderji is an evidential psychic medium 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.

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.