CURRENT MISSION

Enable doctors in low resource settings through biomedical engineering design, participate in communities of agape love wherever I live

ABOUT ME

passionate, compassionate, crazy experiences

PHILOSOPHY

My desperation, my perspiration, my inspiration...
"BE the change... you wish to see in the world."

Interests

engineering + medicine + teaching + public health + constant people interaction + spoken word poetry + traveling + religious philosophy + international social justice = just the surface

• poetry
• design
• education
• traveling
• spoken word
• chemistry
• teaching
• engineering
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: A Beautiful Mind, Proof, Crash, Finding Neverland, V for Vendetta, Garden State, Rent, Blood Diamond, The Bourne Trilogy

Music: anything i can sing rock hip-hop and don't stop to. i feel it.
most recently: india arie, james blake, simon webbe, gershwin, danielo montero, damien rice, mumford & sons, the weeknd, frank ocean

Books: Tuesdays with Morrie, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress, The Great Gatsby, 1984, The God of Small Things, Horace's "Odes", The Irresistible Revolution, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Huston Smiths "The World's Religions", Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Own Country, And The Band Played On

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Built a full scale water distribution system in rural Cameroon while learning the tribal language, providing 1000+ people with clean water and reducing the incidence of water borne incidence/essentially halving infant mortality
Gone waterfall-jumping
Been a dentist with two hours of formal training (i.e. I did root canals, filled cavities, pulled out wisdom teeth, etc) in the rural Dominican Republic.
Built a 15x15 yd fully fitted, painted, decorated workshop complete with furniture for a friend in Jamaica in 1 week, through a mild hurricane and with a 101 degree fever
Taught first period high school chemistry when I was a senior in high school -- and got people to love coming to class.
Been part of true, accountable communities of agape love.
Gotten an education at one of the best academic institutions in the world, from some of the most diverse, challenging, funny, humble, capable, and smart people in the world.

Teach, Learn, Share

"Go FORTH and set the world on FIRE."

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Myanmar, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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