Interests

• arts
• literature
• design
• exercise
• technology
• board games
• drawing
• music
• jazz
• rock music
• blues
• hiking
• camping
• mathematics
• philosophy
• political science
• sociology
• statistics
• cultural immersion
• learning languages
• sci-fi
• programming
• python
• weight training
• weightlifting
• south korea
• korea
• north korea
• social networks

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

From September 2008 until February 2009 I lived and worked in Sinuiju, North Korea as a member of an NGO. My primary tasks were to interview the households and institutions receiving USAID food assistance and to monitor the distribution of food shipments from a central port to the various counties of North Pyongan Province. Living in North Korea has been one of the defining experiences of my life and has since galvanized my life-long commitment to Korea studies, the social sciences, and to cultivating empathy and understanding across ideological and cultural fractures.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, North Korea, South Korea, United States