I was born and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. From a young age I took an interest in maps and population statistics. I memorized almanacs, scoured atlases, and read census figures like they were comic books. My hobby was demography. No joke!
I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara where I majored in geography. In my sophomore year I took a class on 'Population Geography'. I knew immediately that this was what I wanted to do. I had known since I was a kid that it was what I wanted to do, I just didn't know I could.
I lived all over the East Coast, including in Philadelphia, PA, Providence, RI, Boston, MA, Washington, DC and State College, PA before moving to my favorite American city: Minneapolis! I enjoy plenty of activities in my spare time:
-Biking
-Home brewing/beer tasting
-Coffee
-Cities/Transit
-Bar trivia
-Regional accents
-Cooking