Meri is a New Yorker with a deep love of world travel who hosts, writes, and develops New York City walking and food tours.

Aside from the tours offered through Footnotes*, Meri gives food tours for top-rated Tasty Tours NYC and Statue of Liberty Tours for Walks and ExperienceFirst.

During Meri’s thirty-year Emmy-winning career writing, producing, and directing unscripted television and film, she has been embedded in the worlds of fashion, competitive high school science, haute cuisine, stand-up comedy, Spring Break in Cancun, a horse farm in New Jersey, Huda Beauty’s headquarters in Dubai, and an independent wrestling company started by the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan in Chicago.

Her proudest credits include Project Runway, Top Chef, Human Resources, It Started As A Joke, 30 Days: Muslims In America, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, Science Fair: The Series, and the documentary she was “surely” born to make on the movie Airplane!

Meri is also a docent at MOFAD (The Museum of Food and Drink). Her favorite New York things include autumn, dim sum, the movie Party Girl, dog runs for little dogs, Brooklyn Bridge Park, WhatIsNewYork Instagram, and running into people randomly as if there aren’t 8 million people here.