I'm a program coordinator with the Shared Disability Center. And my story is from a long time ago. When I was in college, when I was in undergrad, I was studying archeology. And I had this really amazing opportunity to go to East Africa, to Tanzania, and do some actual archeological research and actual digs. And one of the most amazing things I found was some stone tools made out of, like, a volcanic glass. And what was so interesting about that, what was so amazing about it was that there's no volcano. There was no volcano close to where we found this stuff. So we figured, okay, it had to have come from somewhere. And that's some indication of human movement. Either they migrated or they traded several thousand years ago. And so I got really fascinated with human movement and how humans move, and then years later, I was getting my master's degree in public policy. I was learning about food deserts and about how people can access grocery stores. Once again, I was fascinated with movements and how people get around and I started thinking about transit deserts, and all sorts of transportation related policy questions, and that eventually led me here.
