So who am I
anyways?
Not personal
enough? – I also secretly enjoy popping bubble-wrap, making Mint Oreo cheesecakes,
reading books that cause me to question the way I think about life, and going
on long hikes through uncharted territory.
I grew up in
the bustling metropolis of the Quad-Cities (can you name all four of them?) in
the vast state of Iowa, where I spent surprisingly little time walking through
corn fields. After graduating from
Davenport Central High School, I attended the University of Iowa and earned a
major in Civil & Environmental Engineering and a minor in French. While
in college, I spent much of my time outside of class playing competitive
Ultimate Frisbee and recreational soccer, undertaking environmentally oriented
projects through UI’s chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World, designing and
welding model bridges for ASCE Steel Bridge Competitions, and building actual
footbridges for communities in Zambia and Nicaragua. I also held a variety of jobs, ranging from
landscaper extraordinaire to plant & wildlife research ranch work-hand to city
christmas-tree composting collector to bottled-water water quality researcher.
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A group of engineering students from the University of Iowa that I worked with building footbridges in Zambia and Nicaragua. This bridge connects the villages of Linda and Libuya in Zambia |
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If you want to
read more about any of the specific projects I’m working on, click on the links below.