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More recently, Beck appeared as herself in a 2020 video story produced by the United States Census Bureau, highlighting her advocacy for affordable housing.

Beck is an advocate for the unsheltered homeless of Los Angeles. In recognition of her ongoing non-profit work to improve the lives of the homeless, as well as the success of her startup PodShare in addressing urban affordability, Beck received the 2020 Stratiscope Impact Makers Award at Los Angeles City Hall on January 29, 2020.

The company opened its first location in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and has since added locations in Los Feliz, Arts District, Venice Beach and Westwood in that city. In July 2019, PodShare opened its first location outside of Los Angeles in Tendernob, San Francisco, California.

Since 2015, Beck has served as President of the Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council. In 2019, she was re-elected to serve a second 4-year term.

In 2012, recognizing the lack of available, short-term housing for freelancers and transitioners, Beck co-founded coliving company PodShare with her father.

Beck was born in Moscow, USSR in 1985. In 1990, when the wall fell, Beck emigrated to Brooklyn, New York City with her parents, Elvira and Antony. After an initial period of support from the Russian community in Brooklyn (a period which Beck has credited as formative in her positive views of community and sharing), the family moved to Livingston, New Jersey. Beck was educated at Livingston High School, and Pepperdine University, Malibu, graduating in Political Science in 2008.