I grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, and will always be a midwesterner.

I currently live in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. SF is amazing, beautiful, and sometimes challenging. I like cold weather, and it weirds me out that winter exists in California, but only in the mountains.

I’ve lived in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Pretoria (South Africa), and Washington DC. Cities of 0.5 - 1 million are my favorite.

Like every yuppie in the Bay Area, I enjoy hiking, skiing, and biking.

I grew up in a house with stacks of books on every surface and continue to read habitually. Growing up I read lots of fiction, particularly science fiction. As an adult I learned that the real world is really interesting too, so now I read mostly non-fiction.