“I’ll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles—I’ll buy a piano and Mozart me that—I’ll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life—This part is my part of the movie, let’s hear yours.”Jack Kerouac, TristessaIf there has been any constant in my educational and professional development, it has been that of “the story”— in almost everything I think and do, I am looking to make connections that help tell the story of that particular environment or system. Naturally, I assumed that this tendency meant I should be a writer. But the more time I spent learning about myself and the capacity for change I hope to have in the world around me, I realized that writing alone would not be enough: I have an insatiable desire to play with the world, merging existing disciplines and systems in ways that promote divergent thinking around and about current problems, gaps, and messes. I am a doodler. A design-thinking enthusiast. I ask a lot of questions and I am eager to listen-- to learn.