The Past:
If you wish you can explore my unofficial resume here with links to all
the organizations and institutions that made me what I am today.
Institutions that shaped me:
Health, Environment, and Development Program School of Public Health,
UC Berkeley (2000-2002)
A program designed to give students the skills to help people
in developing nations achieve health and well-being while protecting
local, community, and global environments.
California
Institute of Technology (1994-1998)
An institution of which I am perpetually in awe. A
stronghold of science, an island of intellectual curiousity, an experience
unlike any other.
Congress-Bundestag Youth
Exchange Program with Youth For
Understanding (1993-1994)
Developed after WWII to increase cultural understanding and
reduce conflict, YFU sends students abroad for a year to live
with a family and attend school in another country. The
Congress-Bundestag program supports student exchange between the U.S. and
Germany, including visits to the state and national governing bodies.
Glenbrook South High School
Academy of International Studies (1989-1993)
An intensive program for high school students to study
history, literature and a foreign language with a global
perspective.
The Unofficial Resume:
Abt Associates, Inc Homeland
Security (2005-present) Environment, Trade & Agriculture (2003-2005): I
joined this company to continue working on issues which cross the
boundary between environment and health.
Somehow I was pulled into the Homeland Security group and now I spend
my time planning for disaster response.
National Center for Environmental
Health, Environmental Health Services Branch, Centers for Disease
Control, Atlanta (2002-2003): I worked with NCEH for a year as a Fellow.
Our branch
focused on broad strategies for improving and supporting the
environmental health profession. I also got a brief stint working in
the Emergency Operations Center on the monkeypox outbreak.
School of Public Health,
Berkeley (2002):
For the last semester of graduate school and the following summer I had
the pleasure of working with the Eskenazi research group at Berkeley,
studying reproductive outcomes resulting from exposure to dioxin and DDT.
San Francisco Dept of Public
Health (2001):
During the summer of 2001 I interned at the SFDPH, developing their Burden
of Disease model in R (a statistical programming language).
MMG/USWeb/marchFIRST(1999-2000):
For
15 months I worked as an internet strategy consultant for marchFIRST, nee
USWeb, nee the Mitchell Madison Group. I got to enjoy the rollercoaster
of the market in the Bay Area, the dotcom center of the world, before
returning to grad school.
AAAS (1998):
During the DC internship scandal I took a six month
internship at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in
Washington, DC. Here I explored the health impact of the massive
environmental degradation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe
and the Former Soviet Union.
BofA (1997): After returning from China
and
experiencing the handover of Hong Kong I ended up working a temp job at
Bank of America in San Francisco. Net Result: I fell in love with the
city.
SURF (1996): In Caltech's
Summer
Undergraduate Research Program I learned how thick the air around LA
really is, collecting air samples from San Nicholas Island, San Pedro
Hill, and the San Gabriel Mountains.
NFS (1995): I spent one
summer as
a forest ranger in the National Forest Service speaking to thousands of
vacationing retirees about Mendenhall Glacier (near Juneau, Alaska) [see
photos]
Last updated 6/04