I grew up in a suburban town in New Jersey, where I witnessed many of the sociological issues associated with small town life and amongst them was bullying."Growing up I felt like an outcast, unsure of where I belonged or fit in because I looked different... For me, singing always made everything 100 times better. It became my escape."My Association With Bullying Was Rekindled some years later as a stage actress post college. I had the opportunity to work professionally in a few off­ broadway children’s musicals which coincidentally were laced with the same underlying message: acceptance, being different, and being true to yourself.That's when my mom, a teacher in the town of Parsippany where I grew up, mentioned the idea of assembly programs.What could I possibly talk about during an assembly and how could I gurantee it would be fun, entertaining and unqiue. What are kids, AND myself, struggling with of today? …It was then that the idea of Be True To You was born.