My first official trip as the scholar, after the awards ceremony in New York City, was a week-long trip to visit the Divers Alert Network (DAN) headquarters in Durham, North Carolina. I have been a member of DAN for as long as I’ve been a diver, but luckily have never needed to use the organization […]

I have spent the last 6 years of my life in what I like to think of as “controlled uncertainty” mixed with “comfortable adventure” .  Throughout my undergraduate education at the University of Southern California (USC) I had a perfect combination of adventure, exploration, and going into the unknown with regiment, scheduling, and sureness. Every […]