Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1542297
36 SPRING 2026 have a department here. When you're a Shopper and you're not technically on that crew, you're in a whole other state, you don't think of those things. You don't think to ask, "Hey, where's my cellphone allowance? Where's my computer allowance? I still have to drive, I need a car allowance, my lunch per diem." You have to think of all these things. You don't just have a pey cash flow. Are you seing up accounts everywhere? Have you set up accounts everywhere? You don't have a P Card, you don't have the things that you normally would just walk into the office on day one and they just hand you so you have to really think of all the things that you really need to get the job done. KS: Half the time, most of the people in the department don't even know who I am. TR: We need to be able to help each other, to fight for each other, but we also need to let other 705 members know what we do. A lot of times, we're undervalued. What are some projects that were important to you in your role as a Shopper? KS: The Fabelmans was a big one for me, because I grew up watching films with my dad. We always watched Spielberg films. He was like the director of our house, and my dad's no longer with us. He never got to see me do this. So that was a big emotional moment for me working on a Spielberg film like that. I've grown up with his films, and now my name is going to be in the credits on a Spielberg film. It was a big deal. And then I would say Lessons in Chemistry was really notable for me because I feel like I worked with my grandmother and my mom on it. In the book, it takes place a lile bit later in time, but they moved the timeline back for the show to be in the early '50s. The main character Elizabeth was supposed to have been born in 1929, and my grandmother was born in 1929. Then the character has a kid in the mid-'50s, and my mom was born in 1954, so I would ask my grandmother a lot of questions about how people wore their clothes. How clothes were part of her life, instead of just looking at a catalog. We'd ask intimate questions like, 'If you were at home in your house dress, were you wearing a slip underneath it? Or did you care?" We were trying to get to the reality of how people used their clothes. I would ask her questions like, 'When was it acceptable for women to wear pants?' and 'If you were just going to run to the grocery store, what would you wear? Would you ever wear a house coat?' The answer was no. The answer was if you wore a house coat and curlers, it was awful, so it was really interesting to ask those questions of her. It was very personal for me on that level because I actually had that. I could just call her up and FaceTime her. My mom was with her, and so I would just FaceTime them, and we'd ask them questions like that and it was really invaluable. It has a special place in my heart for that reason because I feel like I worked with my grandmother on it. AE: Shirley was definitely close to my heart, we had a great