For 30 days, we backpacked the trail-less northern wilds of the Yukon. Without shower access for a whole month, we trekked fearlessly through forests, across tundras, and up mountains. We mastered wilderness survival techniques, exercised leadership skills, implemented first aid/emergency protocol, practiced teamwork, and traversed hundreds of kilometers in layers of dirt, grime, and our own filth. Did I mention that there were NO SHOWERS? These GoPro™ photos chronicle our expedition.

Not pictured: Our resupply was short a 40kg bag of rations. Then, things went from bad to worse when one of the canisters leaked jet fuel into my pack, contaminating all of the food I was carrying and leaving chemical burns on my lower back. We ran out of food with several days’ journey still ahead of us. One of the other groups stoned a baby ptarmigan to death and cooked it for sustenance. My rag-tag band of misfits baked “fuel-bread” as a last resort, which induced gasoline-flavored burps every 10 to 15 minutes. I could sense my pediatrician disappointedly shaking his head from 6000km away.

If anyone asks what your course was like, you can tell them...

"We were organized, thorough, and prepared. We took care of ourselves in basic ways. We entrusted people with our lives, learned to do without and persevered at difficult things. We learned to use new tools, and we took care of what we had with us. We lived simply."

And if they are perceptive, they will say…

"You don't need the mountains to do that."

Morehead-Cain Civic Collaboration Pilot: An inter-disciplinary summer of research, strategic planning, and service. 

In addition to penning a few of the written pieces, I formatted the publication in InDesign and captured all the photos used in the final deliverable.

By collaborating with innovation leaders in the city, we strove to understand the complex connections between the city’s economic, cultural, governmental, educational, political, and historical systems, and the ways that individuals are creating change through them. By thinking critically about impact, our team pursued solutions to Chattanooga’s most puzzling issues—and did so with curiosity and optimism.

• Collaborated in a team of six Morehead-Cain scholars on a self-directed and independently designed project hosted by The Enterprise Center and Lyndhurst Foundation 
• Conducted investigative research to determine metrics for the city’s recently-developed innovation district
• Interviewed over 50 community, organization, and business leaders in order to gain an understanding of and propose solutions for complex problems that exist within the intricacies of Chattanooga's Innovation District
• Delivered findings in a detailed report, video, and presentation to Chattanooga’s startup community

Experimental Theatre. My favorite thing I do at UNC.

Our Facebook Page: modernshakespearesociety

Modern Shakespeare Society is an organization dedicated to producing theatre in the style of the Neo-Futurists at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As the name suggests, we attempt to perform 30 original, self-written plays in 60 minutes.

What is Neo-Futurism? I’m glad you asked!

Neo-Futurism is an evolving, multi-faceted theatrical aesthetic built on the belief of truthful, direct communication between the performer and the audience. Neo-Futurism does not pretend. It does not believe in the “suspension of disbelief.” It does not attempt to take the audience anywhere else at any other time with any other people. Neo-Futurism embraces the actual world around us and drags it kicking and screaming onto the stage where everyone can observe its hideous beauty and wrestle with its unfathomable contradictions.

30 Plays is a living newspaper, adjusting to events in the world and in our lives. Each show offers a wildly eclectic “menu” of plays touching on all genres and tones: political, satirical, personal, tragic, comical, absurd, lyrical, surreal, poetic, and so on. The menu changes from show to show, and the audience determines the order. This diverse patchwork of comedy and personal stories and dance and politics and current events and abstract experiences is devised to vary as much as possible in both content and presentation and to challenge the conventions of theatre as we know it and experiment in playful and honest ways.

*Rules: We do not play characters. We only play ourselves. Some plays will be funny. Some will be sad. Everything is true. If we tell a story, you can bet your tookus that it actually happened. The audience will call out the number of the play they’d like performed next when (and only when) we say “CURTAIN!” If we finish all 30, great! If not, great!

*The rules are meant to be broken.

My Original Podcast Idea! (Yet Unrealized)

Theme: Uptempo, jazzy violin/upright bass rendition of Terheel Fight Song

Length: 15-20 minutes per episode - perfect for the walk to class

Premise: A UNC Student Podcast (for students, by students) highlighting UNC student achievements and campus events

Rotating co-hosts discuss the week’s news on campus and invite a student representative from a campus organization on the air for an interview about their upcoming performance / recent achievement / unique experience. Each episode (aired weekly) ends with a list of events scheduled for the following week, i.e. student protest on Thursday, slam poetry reading on Friday, etc.

Conducted first ever ELCA case study of a certified-sustainable building in SE Asia. Published 7-month Life Cycle Analysis at Thailand Field Site in Energy and Buildings international journal.

Title: Life cycle assessment: a multi-scenario case study of a low-energy industrial building in Thailand

Description: Spring semester 2017, I studied Environmental Technology and Management at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi in Bangkok, Thailand. In conjunction with the Masters of Engineering Program, our research team produced the first Life Cycle Analysis of an energy-efficient industrial building in Thailand. These three pages are just a preview of our DGNB case study, which was published in the Energy & Buildings International Scientific Journal. I designed the graphic, too!

I like to take pics of the friends I’ve made on the road.