Education
Electra graduated from School of the Woods, a Montessori high school in Houston. She attended, a Great Books school in Chicago, from 2010-2014.
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Electra first drew national attention in 2010 with the music video I"m in Love with Friedrich Hayek, which lauded the philosophy of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek and garnered commentary from the modern Austrian theory professor Steven Horwitz. In 2011 she released two more videos, Roll with the Flow and We Got it 4 Cheap. We Got it 4 Cheap came in second in the Lloyd V. Hackley Endowment"s "Supply and Demand Video Contest".
In 2012 she interned at production company Emergent Order.
Emergent Order had previously published Fear the Boom and Bust, a similarly intellectual, Hayek-oriented rap video. She then produced a new, similarly economics-oriented popular video, FA$T California$H, with the support of an award from the Moving Picture Institute.
Electra drew criticism from Gawker"s Maureen Tkacik, who criticized her as an example of "tween indoctrination" with libertarian ideas. In 2013, Electra told The College Fix that she no longer identified as a libertarian.
In 2014, Electra released a music video called, based on Frank Jackson"s philosophical thought experiment of the same name (1986).
2015 saw the release of Electra"s video Forever Young: A Love Song to Ray Kurzweil, a tribute to the futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Politics
Both were covered by mainstream political media. In September of 2012, Electra released the music video Party Milk, which she describes as an attempt to merge common party scene symbolism with something one would never associate with a party, but that everyone is familiar with in another context.
