About Me
I like intellectual/unusual/silly people. I am a student and I study too much, but I like it. I have many interests as an activist, but I hope to pursue a career in health care and social entrepreneurship and/or medical anthropology. This June (2007) I was part of a Global Youth Connect Human rights Delegation to Guatemala where I had opportunities to meet and work with many Guatemalan youth and social change organizations, in addition to teaching a class on Public Health, Reproductive Health, and Human Rights to about 100 middle school students. This fall I am studying in Havana Cuba at the Instituto Superior de Arte.
I have been lucky enough to work with and learn from several great organizations and social movements over the last few years.
After graduating from High School in The Dalles Oregon, I was an AFX exchange for excellence scholar to The Netherlands with AFS. I spent about a year making great friends, learning Dutch, attending high school, and exposing myself to a diversity of people and ideas that radically transformed my world view. Soon after starting college back in Portland Oregon the following year, I became involved with the Archimedes Movement, a refreshingly bold yet pragmatic and effective grassroots health care reform effort. Among other duties, I am currently the leader of the Young & Healthy Special Interest group with this movement.
Currently I am working with a Hip team of close friends to found a social enterprise of our own. We are dedicating ourselves to developing action oriented and creative social networking and organizing technologies for civic minded students and active members of civil society.
Back at school in Portland I get to do some cool things, like sing and make a CD with the schools a cappella group, MoMo & the Coop (pictured above). I am also a student of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program at LC and have had some wondrous opportunities to conduct research here, particularly as a Rogers Summer Research Fellow. During this summer fellowship and subsequent lab time during the academic year I investigated Ribosome Biogenesis in S. Cerevisiae with Deborah Lycan, a founder of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program and current chair of Lewis & Clark’s Department of Biology. Although such research is not a career priority for me, I think it’s pretty exciting and hugely intellectually stimulating; I hope to pursue thesis research in the Lycan lab.
