Award winning actress Alysia Reiner is best known as “Fig” in all 7 seasons of Netflix’s ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, for which she won a SAG award. You may also know her as Kiki on HBO’s THE DEUCE or Sunny on FX’s BETTER THINGS – all 4 seasons on Hulu now, and season 5 coming soon! She also starred in and produced two award winning films: EGG (100% fresh on rotten tomatoes!) and EQUITY, both available on iTunes and Amazon now.
Alysia loves working as a change maker for women, just received the Acclaimed Collaborator Award from Women in Arts and Media, is an ambassador for the Geena Davis Institute for Gender Equality, on the global leadership board of TIMES UP, recently received a MUSE “MADE IN NY” AWARD from The Mayor’s office and New York Women in Film and Television. and is passionately committed to protecting the environment – see livariclothing.com, her zero waste womenswear label!
As a huge environmental activist, she has spread the green word as a mother, featured as a parenting expert on KIDS IN THE HOUSE, and well as featured on Hallmark Home and Family TV, Celebrity Baby Scoop, Stroller Traffic, People.com, Healthy Child Healthy World, Family Focus Blog, Today I ate a Rainbow, MINI Magazine, Your Green Baby, and others. She was a celebrity green momma spokesperson for Healthy Child Healthy World, as well as Best For Babes, an organization that works to change how we view and support breast feeding, and gives moms the solutions they need to make it work. As a champion of all things eco-friendly, and she and her husband use their own home as a way to share information about building green. Their brownstone eco-renovation in Harlem was featured on television’s “World’s Greenest Homes” and “Renovation Nation;” in various magazines like Dwell, Gotham, Origin and The Nest; and they allowed the environmentally-friendly construction process to be chronicled on websites such as Dwell.com and Kohler.com. To learn more, follow @alysiareiner on Instagram & Twitter, and check out www.alysiareiner.com.