Seth Etienne Email & Phone Number

I ask questions. A lot. Some obvious – What should I write here?Some introspective – What am I doing with my life?Some unconventional – If my personality was a font, what would it be?If I could be summed up in one word, it would be "curious". Curious about people, cultures, systems, sports, history, etc. This naturally leads to cultivating multiple interests, soaking up information like a sponge, and making connections that were initially unapparent. Studying architecture refined my sense of detail, ability to communicate visually, and critically diagnose and assess problems. In the same way that architects convey the visions of buildings in their heads through drawings, models, and renders, I realized that analysts were translating spreadsheets and data frames into charts and graphs to convey insight. Solutions to the problems didn't always have to be a building. They could be a change in basketball tactics, public health policy, or anything that I was curious about. So curiosity led me to journalists writing stories driven by data. To online Python and SQL courses. And to experiment with dashboards in Tableau.In the past, curiosity has also led me to:- Keeping a classroom of 20 8th graders engaged on Zoom by treating the lesson on Frida Kahlo as a 54-minute-long TikTok video- Spending hours playing medical telephone in a cramped 8x4 partitioned-off space with an American doctor, a Quechua – Spanish interpreter, and the various Quechua-speaking people seeking medical care in a remote village in the Andes- Voicing bold opinions on fantasy football to my league, running the numbers, and seeing how wrong I was in the most aesthetically pleasing wayFind me at the intersection of people, culture, and data, and bring your questions.

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  Virginia Tech

  Architecture