CURRENT MISSION Exploring Life ABOUT ME After graduating, I took a leap across the Pacific and taught English in Japan for 2 years. Then I started traveling the long way back to the States and had such wonderful and eye-opening experience that really put things into perspective. I love meeting people or going places where there are different ideas about how things "are" done, learning from them, and synthesizing (i.e. the basis of American culture!). I'm especially interested in the environment, energy, urban design, and transportation planning. So much so that sometimes I find myself just riding the transportation without any destination in mind. I grew up in the nasti nati which lacks innovation in all of the above, so my recent travels have been eye opening in that sense. I like having fun, wandering aimlessly, cooking, deep conversations, but especially wandering aimlessly PHILOSOPHY Pay it forward always and often to make the world a nicer place with a personal touch.