Kody Christiansen

Kody Christiansen was born in Fort Worth, Texas on February 1st. Kody's road to the film and TV world has been a rocky one as he recounts: "Just a few years ago, I was digging through an odorous trash can in the blistering sun on Wall Street in downtown New York City searching for a piece of leftover bagel or a bottle with a drop of alcohol left in it to satiate my cravings. As my hands sorted through the waste of others that was treasure for me in my darkness, I remember recounting in my head the day my father went to prison when I was in seventh grade or seeing my mother on her deathbed my senior year of high school clinging to life only by the tubes than ran through her before I made the call to pull the plug. I pictured the cold white walls of the homeless shelter I was calling home at the time and the distant memories of what life was like before I became addicted to alcohol and drugs. I was the President of the NYU SPS Undergraduate Student Council, the Founder and President of