Hello all,

Last February I graduated from Middlebury College  with BA in English Lit major and a Spanish minor. That spring and summer I worked in New Orleans as the leader of 15-person high school volunteer groups who helped build homes with Habitat for Humanity in the 9th Ward. While there, I helped plan the New Orleans StepItIp2007 climate rally on April 14 (in the picture, I am part of the letter "U"). New Orleans is a fascinating place that excites and repulses at the same time. 

Over the years, my passion for the natural world has grown and led me to organize an anthology for environmental writer Bill McKibben fall '06, to intern at the Earth Island Journal in San Francisco summer '06 and to write a 20-page report  on environmental activisim on Vermont college campuses spring '06. When I grow up I want to be an environmental writer just like Bill McKibben and Paul Hawken! 

In the near future I will help plan and plant a 5-acre wildlife habitat in the heart of the Central Valley on the family farm where I grew up. When I start to miss homework as a daily reality, I will return to school to earn a degree in an undetermined environmental field.   



Randomness:
I've been a vegetarian since I was born and grew up riding horses on a a small farm near the Sacramento River

We had a pet cow named Bob (almost went in the Guinness book of world records for largest specimen) and a pet turkey named Ernie. Sadly, they've both passed.

My childhood horse, Blubelle (she's retired), nickers to me again when I come outside. When I went away to college she stopped talking to me for a while. I think she felt abandoned, but luckily we've worked things out.