CURRENT MISSION

Be a better person than yesterday

ABOUT ME

I'm in love with life. I have a plan and I can be very driven, but I also try to take everything as is comes my way to get the most out of every experience. For example, when my girlfriends and I attempted to hide out in a Jordanian national park until nightfall so that we could sneak into the candle-lit canyon nightly walk and ended up losing our way down the mountain, spraining an ankle, getting picked up by some young Bedouin boys and toted off on donkeys up and down cliffs and across a desert under the moonlight, just to end up on the other side of the park with a pimped out Mercedes blaring 50 Cent waiting to take us back to our hotel...we just laughed and enjoyed the night. Completely spontaneous, potentially dangerous, but indefinitely memorable.

PHILOSOPHY

You can't control what the day brings or even what life hands you, but you can choose how you deal with it. I try every day to improve myself and to do something nice for someone else. It makes a difference.

Interests

Out in Omaha, I'm probably-mostly-always consumed with dental school stuff: studying, lab work, patient management, and Thursday Taco Rides. But, when I do join the real world, I'm always up for dancing and exploring Nebraska's outdoor secrets, most recently, Vala's Pumpkin Patch's massive SUNFLOWER field, guaranteed to make you prance and twirl.

• dancing
• outdoor activities

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Any movie with sultry Latin dance! Music: Anything I can dance to! (You get the picture.) Books: Science textbooks at the moment.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm an RPCV. Served in Jordan. The most amazing thing I've done? 27 months in a conservative Muslim village teaching in a cold concrete girls' school and eating goat meat and yogurt rice off of a communal tray with friends and neighbors.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Jordan, Spain, United States