Hi! I am Tokyo-born, California-raised and I go to university in San Diego where I study cognitive science (it’s like psychology) and design. I can talk for hours about city/urban design as well as sustainable development for developing countries, and love listening to people’s crazy experiences and stories. In my spare time you can catch me listening to philosophy podcasts, watching cooking videos or cocktail making videos on youtube, and drawing (although I wish I could draw better). I’m also super into film photography—I’ll take a few pictures of you and send them to you once I get them developed back home 😉 I’ve been to only a few countries compared to a lot of people on CS but I want to open up my world more through traveling and talking to more people. Since I want to go into the humanitarian sector in the future, it would mean a lot for me to go out into the world and gain different perspectives and world views. I consider myself a pretty open-minded but the goal is to always make myself even more open-minded and more empathetic through meeting new people!