With no high school education, I had my first job at 15 and was homeless at 16. By 20, I had my GED and lived overseas, a traveling expat. I have experience in a variety of fields, and am now living in the United States studying psychiatric mental health. 

My curiosity, imagination, breadth of experience, and depths of grief are my strengths, the gifts that have been given to me. With these I aspire to the experience of being alive, transformation, and transcendence.