I was born and grew up in and near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I graduated from Cooper High School in 2007, and took a gap year to volunteer full time with an AmeriCorps program called City Year in San Antonio, Texas. I'm now finishing up my freshman year at Cornell.
At Cornell I'm designing an indivudalized major. The working title for the major is "Human population, environmental degradation, and social strife". It's a highly interdisciplinary major that draws from natural sciences such as geology and biology, human sciences such as politics, sociology, economics, and women's studies, and elements of the humanities, such as ethics and literature. I'm not sure what I intend to do with my major, but I hope it's some sort of low-paying, non-profit or grassroots effort that focuses on environmental stewardship.
I have some experience with computers. I know how to assemble computer hardware into a working machine, and have built my last two computers from parts I selected. I have a little experience with networks, but nothing serious. I once was able to do some basic programming in Visual Basic, but have probably since forgotten most of it.
Apart from that I like physical labor, activism, biking, climbing, outdoor activities, reading and writing, spending time with friends. I consider myself an environmentalist before most anything else.
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Works Cited
Bishop, Ian D., et al. "Meeting the Need for GIS Skills in Developing Countries: The Case of Informal Settlements." Transactions in GIS 6.3 (2002): 311.
Charles, Daniel. "Do Maps have Morals?" Technology review 108.6 (2005): 77-9.
Leslie, Brooks Suzukamo. "Computer-Generated Maps could Add to Minnesota's Classrooms, Proponents Say." Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN).
Moon, Zola K., and Frank L. Farmer. "Population Density Surface: A New Approach to an Old Problem." Society & Natural Resources 14.1 (2001): 39-51.
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