About

I'm currently a graduate student studying at UC Berkeley's School of Information. My interests are user interfaces and building cool stuff.

The path that lead me to Berkeley is rather circuitous, but it has included some wonderful stops along the road. Before returning to school I worked as a volunteer with Holy Cross Associates in Chile for two years. My projects there included work with Fundación Contigo, a microcredit organization in Santiago, cooking at a meals-on-wheels-style program in the San Roque parish, and a variety of other social services at foster homes and nursing homes. I also wrote extensively about life in a Spanish-speaking country when you don't speak Spanish particularly well.

I grew up in a few different places, but I lived in Ogden, Utah long enough to say that I'm "from Utah." I studied philosophy at the University of Notre Dame until they handed me a degree and made me leave. I worked as an editor for Scholastic Magazine (no, not that one) and a resident assistant in Carroll Hall

My hobbies are mostly mundane. They're the kind of things you expect to read in an interview with a person who's not quite interesting enough to merit an interview. I enjoy reading, writing, photography, and tinkering with computers.

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