I grew up in northern Michigan. I loved camping and sports and grew up with a lot of small town stuff. I went to the University of Michigan for astrophysics. I love the idea that the world is bigger than everybody cares about. It makes our world's life situation seem real small when you realize just how small our planet is.
I went to grad school working on telescopes and I spent six months in Chile working on scientific development of microwave telescopes.

Then I realized that although I love science, I would like to move on from the subject. I have owned dogs all my life and I'd like to move on to a subject I actually care about. Dogs make me happy and I can help them. This is the direction of my life I'd like to go in.