About Some of Us
Finding joy in books, writing, and by the ocean
AUDREY, the founder and owner of Some of Us Notecards, was born and raised in New York. The child of immigrants, Audrey began nurturing a love of reading and writing in middle school. During a blissful ten years of undergraduate and graduate school, she "moonlighted" as a journalist, publishing hundreds of theater reviews, book reviews, restaurant openings and features in Washington, DC and New York. She then began her life as a career academic, completing post-doctorate fellowships in Eastern and Western religion at Columbia University and the University of Hawai'i, and becoming a second degree Reiki practitioner along the way. At the culmination of her religious studies, she fulfilled a personal dream of serving as an HIV/AIDS chaplain, and spent five years as the spiritual director at an HIV/AIDS facility, doing spiritual care at night and university teaching during the day.
Some of Us Notecards was founded on a very cold winter morning on Martha's Vineyard, as Audrey and her daughters imagined ways to bottle the beauty of every season on the Island. Some of Us Cards is the culmination of a life-long love of capturing joy on paper, combined with an appreciation of joyful images that highlight women of color.
Audrey's dream was to make beautiful notecards that are locally made, environmentally responsible, and sensitive to the price points, desires and needs of historically minoritized populations, including women, people of color, all gender and love iterations. Since it's founding in 2022, Some of Us Notecards has sold over 10,000 cards.
After an unexpected breast cancer diagnosis, Audrey took a year off; she relaunched in 2025, earning a nomination and ultimately winning the 2025 Greeting Card of the Year Award from the International Greeting Card Association ("Celebrating Black Culture" category).​ To date, Some of Us Notecards are available in over 50 bookshops, gift shops and boutiques all around the US, with many custom designs sold all around the island of Martha's Vineyard, her home away from home. And as often as possible, she tries to connect with each and every one of the amazing folks who carry her cards.