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MAY 2019 PUBLISHER

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Recipe for success. IT'S OK TO PLAY FAVORITES, RIGHT? Let's say it is for this issue. These pages tug at my heartstrings and quite honestly, they make going-for-it seem

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normal. Have you ever tried cooking Eggs Benedict? The velvety layer of Hollandaise

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sauce, the golden center of a perfectly poached egg, the consistent heat of that first

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cess with a full belly is worth every risk and a pile of dirty dishes. And the memories of being in the kitchen with mom, staring into a pot of almost-boiled water before cracking the egg on Mother's Day is priceless. The Eggs Benedict recipe on page 30 awakens a memory of my teenage years, dressing up for a big brunch outing with mom and my siblings, laughing and breaking bread around a huge table in the sunlight of some fancy restaurant. The step-by-step recipe and the go-for-it attitude sets the tone for this entire issue. As editor, I often get asked, "Don't you run out of things to cover?" And I'm embarrassed to say that during my time as a freelance writer, I feared this on a regular basis.

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The woman on this month's cover is Sherri Davidoff, a cybersecurity hacker. She's an

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MIT graduate and internationally recognized for her skill set in breaking and entering,

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electronically. And she lives in Missoula! The image of her looking up from her com-

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puter screen and staring right at us is so striking and so telling of how hardcore our

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community can be. The female energy of our little corner of this world is throbbing with such intensity that it can be felt around the world if we keep sharing our stories and chasing our too-big dreams. I also learned about Aerial Alchemy, a local business I never knew existed, and that

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Canvas Studios is so much more than a place to get your hair styled or cut. And where societial pressures rip us in both directions (all natural or caked in makeup), Skin Chic has created the ultimate sweet spot. I hope that by the end of these pages, you are reminded that you are capable. Of anything. On the Cover Sherri Davidoff shows us the gritty glow of her cyber world. Read about her story on Chelsea Lyn Agro, Editor page XX. Chelsea.Agro@LifestylePubs.com

MissoulaValleyLifestyle.com ON THE COVER Sherri Davidoff shows us the gritty glow of her cyber world. Read about her story on page 22. 4

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INSIDE THE ISSUE MAY 2019

FEATURES 12 Skin Deep Skin Chic reflects on a humble history.

18 Lift Me Up Local aerial acrobat grounds herself and others by going up.

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22 Hired to Hack Local cybersecurity expert forges her own path.

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LOCAL LIMELIGHT

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Skin Deep SKIN CHIC REFLECTS ON A HUMBLE HISTORY CINDY DUNCAN AND JENNIFER CLOUSE DON’T BELIEVE THE RUMOR THAT BEAUTY IS SOLELY SKIN DEEP, DESPITE THEIR DEVOTION TO DERMAL AESTHETICS AND CARE. As co-owners of Skin Chic, located in the Southgate Mall, Cindy and Jennifer have made it their life’s work to help bring a person’s natural radiant glow to the epidermal surface. From its early days, Skin Chic’s mission was to create a space where anyone could get honest advice on how to take care of their skin. In 2001, Cindy founded Skin Chic with the unique ambition of creating a “living beauty magazine.” Her vision took the shape of a walk-in boutique spa that doubled as a hub for trustworthy information on skincare, a professional space to consult before seeking a prescription. “You go to the bookstore and you read twelve different beauty magazines telling you twelve different things,” explained Cindy. “I wanted Skin Chic to be an accessible place for everyone to get education on skincare without sacrificing our quality.” Skin Chic’s initial downtown location covered the living beauty magazine concept in every way aside from accessibility. Located in the Hammond building’s interior L-shaped shopping arcade, Skin Chic was a windowless, 400 square-foot boutique that lacked the foot-traffic exposure granted to Higgins’ street-side shops. So, Cindy got creative. While the current Southgate Mall location is known for walk-ins, Cindy had to take Skin Chic to the CONTINUED >

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streets to get the word out in the early days. By applying Iron Horse waitresses’ makeup and offering makeovers at Runner’s Edge marathons, Cindy elevated her small business’ organic word-of-mouth status, allowing her to eventually move across Hammond’s hallway to a larger space, roughly 1,800 square feet, overlooking Higgins, the current location for Mary’s Mountain Cookies. From Hammond’s hidden building hallway to Higgins street-side, Skin Chic’s own inner beauty emerged, attracting Skin Chic’s current co-owner Jennifer Clouse. “When I moved to Missoula from Spokane in 2007,” Jennifer explained, “I looked for esthetic work, and I saw the only boutique that had ‘skin’ in its name.” “She walked in and I stole her immediately,” Cindy added with a laugh. Soon after, Cindy and Jennifer moved the boutique’s location to the Southgate Mall, introduced medical services to Skin Chic, involved staff nurses and trained estheticians, and opened the Montana Skin Academy, a much-needed esthetic school in Missoula that would give aspiring aestheticians a place to get a hands-on education locally. Having worked with local models, photographers, and florists, such as Jennifer Horsley of Habitat, Skin Chic has become a staple of the Missoula community since opening eighteen years ago. And now here we are. In retelling Skin Chic’s history, Cindy spoke in what she playfully referred to as “Cindy Lou-Lou” language—a joyful verbiage that revealed her breezy, fun, Florida origins. “I’m always two streets over, never right on,” Cindy jokingly self-deprecated. Jokes aside, Cindy has found her most rewarding moments to be ones that have led to a change in perspective, not necessarily a person’s appearance. It takes strength to have confidence and confidence to have beauty. Jennifer shared Cindy’s enthusiasm, especially when discussing the nature of her work. “I know that people need their alone time to recharge from work,” Jennifer explained, “but coming here is my ‘alone time,’ so to speak.” Cindy and Jennifer liken their staff to a “big family,” and they prefer to work together than compete for clients. This has a splash effect on the Missoula community at large. Rather than safeguard their proprietary secrets from each other and from other businesses, Skin Chic offers free medical consultations and makeup education to their clients.

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“ I t ’s a b o u t taking what is our problems or pain and turning it into o u r p owe r.”

AT ANY NUMBER OF MISSOULA’S OUTDOOR EVENTS, YOU MAY FIND A GRACEFUL WOMAN DANCING IN MID-AIR WITH A GIANT RIBBON OF CRIMSON FABRIC. Entwined with the cloth, she twirls and unfurls from one shape to another. You crane your neck, both worrying and watching for what she’ll do next. This is the graceful art and athleticism of Raven Summer, aerial acrobat and owner/head coach of Aerial Alchemy. “Alchemy is about changing the mundane into gold,” explained Raven. Born and raised in Missoula, Raven specializes in aerial silks. However, she’ll joke that she performs with "aerial polyester." Her mix of humor and humility found a voice when Raven discovered the welcoming community of circus. “Circus is a place where marginalized people can celebrate their weirdness,” explained Raven. “You may be a freak in normal society, but you are celebrated in circus.” Bearded ladies aside, Raven advocates for "Social Circus," a growing movement which aims to reach beyond entertainment by fostering personal, social, and community development. Raven traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, for extensive teacher training from Carrie Heller, founder and Executive Director of Circus Arts Institute. There, she learned how to weave aerial skills into an educational template for all sorts of ability levels. “We teach for any ability or disability but always in a non-judgmental way. There is a saying: "Circus Works." Circus Art Therapy is an amazing tool for kids with special needs, and Social Circus is a vehicle for social, economic, and community advancement. " Raven teaches all sorts of ages and abilities, in both private and semi-private lessons. She especially enjoys working with bored, rebellious kids who need an outlet. “I know because I was a troubled kid, too,” she said. Raven has also witnessed the transformative power in children with special needs. “For kids who have limitations, like spatial awareness, get them up on a trapeze and, suddenly, they know exactly where their body is in space,” she beamed. CONTINUED >

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Raven discovered aerial acrobat work when she needed her own safe space to heal from deep struggles. Since then, she's trained for fourteen years in the female-dominated sport. “Quite literally, the pain and sorrow I’ve experienced has been transformed through aerial and circus. It’s made me who I am. It’s about taking what is our problems or pain and turning it into our power.” Not many Missoulians dance in midair with a piece of fabric, but that doesn’t deter Raven from getting people up there. She strives to create an accepting space for anyone to discover and express themselves. That’s exactly where Raven wants to be— performing, coaching, and watching people transform. SIDEBAR:

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LOCAL CYBERSECURITY EXPERT FORGES HER OWN PATH

ARTICLE ERIKA FREDRICKSON | PHOTOGRAPHY PAMELA DUNN-PARRISH

MISSOULA-BASED AUTHOR JEREMY SMITH PROVIDES A FUNNY AND TELLING ANECDOTE ABOUT HOW HE CAME TO KNOW CYBERSECURITY EXPERT

Sherri is a professional hacker who is hired to break into security systems in order to find their weaknesses and prevent future malicious hackers from easily stealing information.

SHERRI DAVIDOFF. A few years ago, they ran into each other at a playground in Missoula and realized they’d met briefly 15 years earlier, when Jeremy was a student at Harvard and Sherri was at MIT. On the playground that day, they laughed about what a small world it is as their two preschoolers made friends on the swings. Jeremy recalls with a certain amount of self-deprecation that he went into great detail with Sherri about his life as a writer before finally asking her what she was up to these days. He says that she smiled and very matter-of-factly answered, “Well, tomorrow I have to break into a bank.” Sherri is a professional hacker who is hired to break into security systems in order to find their weaknesses and prevent future malicious hackers from easily stealing information. She is the CEO and founder of LMG Security, a cybersecurity and digital forensic services company based in Missoula that is hired to do these penetration tests for various organizations and companies across the world. These cases of stolen data can have enormous impact with harrowing consequences. There are high-profile examples, like the 2016 Panama Papers where 11.5 million leaked documents detailed financial and attorney-client information about more than 214,000 offshore entities. But even on a smaller-scale, everyday people’s medical and financial data might be being laundered on the dark web only to appear somewhere public without a trace of who was responsible for the leak.

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“Right now, data gets stolen constantly,” Sherri said. “For every case you read about in the media, there are 99 others you never see—if not more than that. And many that are never detected or reported.” Jeremy’s new book, Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien,” released in January, chronicles Sherri’s life as a daring young student at MIT and her rise to becoming a rockstar in the world of cybersecurity. In many ways, it feels like a superhero origin story. On her first day at MIT Sherri finds a note in her backpack: “Meet in the East Campus courtyard tonight at midnight for the real tour of MIT.” That night she is introduced to a crew of hackers who spend their time seamlessly breaking into locked buildings, scaling the insides of elevator shafts, accessing underground tunnel systems, without leaving a trace. Sherry dubs herself “Alien” (all hackers have nicknames) and learns the ways of hacking both physical and digital spaces. It’s a story that uses Sherri’s coming-of-age as a hacker to reveal an underground culture that embodies all the drama of an action-thriller, where good guys and bad guys battle it out in the shadows, outside the periphery of the bustling and oblivious everyday life the rest of us lead. “Who are you? A good guy or a bad guy?” Jeremy asked Sherri at one point in the book. She shrugs. “That depends on who you are.” Hacking has been around for ages, but the idea of a company paying a hacker to break into their system and find its flaws is relatively new. When Sherri first started LMG ten years ago, not a lot of mainstream companies knew what cybersecurity meant.

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“We really emphasize getting to the root of the problem so it won’t happen again,” Sherri said.

“Back in the day I had to explain what we do to all my

started LMG, Sherri worked as a lone-wolf freelancer.

potential clients,” she said. “What is a penetration test?

Sometimes being a woman in a male-dominated field

Why do you need it? At first, it was primarily financial

had its advantages. For instance, she says people often

institutions that were investing in it, and then we saw a

let their guard down with women, and during one secu-

wave of healthcare organizations investing. Nowadays

rity test, she was able to easily talk a security guard into

penetration tests are old hat.”

letting her into a high-security wing of a bank where

Pentests might include phishing operations where

she stole a laptop with highly sensitive information. (As

LMG sends out emails to a company’s staff. The

part of her job, she then reported that she’d stolen the

emails emulate phishing scams and ask the recipient

laptop and returned it to the bank, so they could figure

to click on an attachment. In a true phishing scam

out how to not let that happen again).

scenario, an infected attachment could infect a com-

In other instances, being a woman also has meant not

pany’s entire network. The pentest, however, allows

being taken seriously or having bosses assume she can’t

the company to see which of their employees need to

do the more technical work. Having to prove herself isn’t so

be educated about scams.

much a problem anymore. Sherri has traveled all over the

“Then they see how many people click on that link

world lecturing about and training people in cybersecu-

and then we can work with them to help get additional

rity. She has been a consultant for notable organizations,

training for the staff and work on other risk manage-

including the Department of Defense and the American

ment measures,” said Sherri.

Bar Association. Her new book, Data Breaches: Crisis and

LMG has a wide range of pentests, but it does

Opportunity, comes out in August. If you ask most tech

more than trying to prevent companies and organi-

experts in Missoula, they know who she is. (One Missoula

zations from being hacked. They also come in after a

IT said to me, “Oh Sherri? Yeah, she’s scary smart.”)

company has been hacked, clean up the damage, and

Recently, when someone asked her if she was certified in

handle the investigation.

cybersecurity, she had to laugh. “I wrote the first textbook

“We really emphasize getting to the root of the problem so it won’t happen again,” Sherri said. They also help companies stay in compliance with regulations, which are always changing.

on it,” she said. It’s the one people use to get certified. Sherri is proud that she started LMG in Missoula. “We’ve worked closely with the University and various economic organizations over the years and the

Sherri has the style of former-cyberpunk turned

Montana Hi-Tech Alliance,” she said. “It’s just an amaz-

professional CEO. She’s funny and sharp and she has

ing place to start a business. But we do work all over

the mischievous expression of a person who is ready to

the world and that means we have to be familiar with

take on any challenge.

regulations all over the world.”

After MIT, where she got her degree in computer

As a cybersecurity expert and a single mom, Sherri sees

science and electrical engineering, and before she

the world through a variety of lenses. She is keenly aware of CONTINUED >

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the malicious buying and selling of personal data,

Still, when you’re a superhero fighting the

so she refrains from posting information about her

bad guys, you don’t give up. You take it a battle

children on Facebook, for instance. And sometimes

at a time.

she feels the heavy weight of knowing that when she takes her kids to the doctors office, it’s likely that despite HIPPA enforcement, that their information is being accessed through other ways.

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“To feel like you can see that but you don’t have control, is really hard,” she said. “But it’s also nice to be on the forefront of this industry—to feel like I can make a difference.”

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CULINARY CREATIONS ARTICLE AIMEE ELLIOTT | PHOTOGRAPHY AMY DONOVAN PHOTOGRAPHY

M O T H E R ’ S D AY BRUNCH CHALLENGE YOURSELF TO SAVOR HOMEMADE EGGS BENEDICT

Aimee Elliot

EGGS BENEDICT INGREDIENTS + English Muffin, halved and toasted + 1 Slice of Canadian Bacon or Ham + 2 Eggs + Hollandaise Sauce (recipe below) METHOD FOR POACHING EGGS: Heat two pots of water. One will need 1 tsp of salt and 1 tablespoon of vinegar per quart of water. The other will just be fresh water. Bring them to a bare simmer, between 180 and 185 degrees. Crack eggs individually in a small container and submerge part of the container in the vinegar water first to gently allow the egg to enter the water. Do the same with the other egg. If the egg looks like its sticking to the bottom of the pot, gently swirl the water to help release. Allow eggs to cook until mostly done. When almost finished, transfer eggs with a slotted spoon to the other pot to finish cooking and then rinse the vinegar flavor from eggs. *Note: eggs can be poached ahead of time, stored in cool water, and reheated in simmering water when ready to serve. 30

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IT’S ONLY FOOD. It’s only food. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. I like to repeat this mantra to myself and to my students often. When presented with recipes that are intimidating, that hold high expectations and stories of burning, breaking, curdling, and separating, the mantras keep the cook grounded and confident. Say it with me once more: it’s only food. These stories become culinary oral histories, told before whisks

indulge

are in-hand and recipes are read. The lore of the water, the butter,

HOLLANDAISE RECIPE: Yields: 3 cups

INGREDIENTS + 2 cups Melted Butter or Ghee + 1/8 tsp Crushed Black Peppercorns + 1/8 tsp Salt

+ 6 tbsp White Wine Vinegar + 4 tbsp Cold Water + 6 Egg Yolks

+ 1 – 2 tbsp Fresh Lemon Juice + Salt, to taste

+ Cayenne, to taste DIRECTIONS Combine

peppercorns,

salt,

and

vinegar in a small pan and reduce until approximately 1 tbsp of liquid is left. Remove from heat and add cold water to rehydrate. Add reduced vinegar solution to a mixing bowl with egg yolks and beat until eggs are frothy and bright yellow. Place bowl over a pot of simmering water (Note: you can use your egg poaching water here) and begin whisking to cook the eggs. To help control the temperature and not overcook the eggs, you can remove the bowl every so often and allow it to cool down and return it back to the pot. Once the eggs begin to ribbon or separate at the bottom of the bowl, remove from heat and begin slowly incorporating the butter. Once the butter is completely incorporated, add in lemon juice, salt, and cayenne. Strain and keep warm but not hot. If the sauce becomes too think, you can thin in out with lemon juice or a small amount of water.

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CULINARY CREATIONS

(CON TI N U ED)

the eggs, become lodged in the psyche and elicit fear as soon as the words are whispered: eggs benedict…hollandaise. But the recipes that make this luxurious and simple dish are just food; they are techniques and chemical reactions that create the silky butter sauce that veils the smooth poached eggs. Sure, it may be a pound of butter and all the strength you can muster from your forearm, which feels like an hour of whisking, but if you’re not afraid to break it, to learn from it, and most importantly, to attempt it, you will be rewarded with the most decadent egg dish that can be modified to any taste and flavor profile.

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BEFORE YOU BEGIN, SOME THINGS TO REMEMBER: + Your butter needs to be warm but not hot. It should be liquid in consistency but not hot enough that it will cook your eggs (over 145 degrees). On the opposite end, it shouldn’t be cold, which will also break the sauce. A good indication is if you’re using ghee or clarified butter, it should be transparent and warmer than body temperature (around 110 to 120 degrees). + For all water, it should only be at a simmer, never at a boil. For poaching the eggs, it should be right around 180 degrees. + Whisk the eggs with the reduced vinegar prior to putting them over the water bath until lemon-yellow and frothy. This will help during the initial cooking process. + Always take the eggs off the heat when adding the butter. If you keep them on the heat, it will continue to cook and the sauce will break. + Too much butter can break your sauce. I always go by flavor rather than amount. The end result of the hollandaise should taste like butter and not egg. If you’re tasting and notice the shift in flavor, don’t be afraid to stop. + If at all possible, always use fresh lemon juice. + The vinegar in the poaching water will help tremendously. Do not omit. + Always poach an extra egg just in case one doesn’t turn out.

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