About Me

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About: I grew up in the Texas countryside, fifteen miles out of Elgin, Texas, where I spent most of my childhood traipsing around our four and a half acres in a Xena Warrior Princess outfit that my mom made for me (Xena was my hero), hanging out with dogs, and exploring the creek that ran behind my house. My parents instilled in my older brother and me a love of the natural world, an appreciation for all things fantastical and creative, and the desire to make a positive impact on this beautiful world of ours. I am inspired by beauty, be it in a well-written turn of phrase, the drama of an approaching thunderstorm, or in a smile shared between two passing strangers. My everyday fascination with the world makes for a broad set of interests, but my sense of purpose is resolute: to inspire and to be an ambassador of love and light. Whether this will translate into a political career or work within a non-profit organization I don’t know yet, but as an International Relations major with a track in Science, Technology, and the Environment, those paths will likely intersect. I would love to dedicate myself to protect and conserve the environment, or work for the well-being of women and children around the world.

Why I Ride

I ride in solidarity with those who have lost a loved one to disease, for those whose cicumstances deny them the care and attention they need, and for all the people in the world who are battling cancer today. No one is immune to cancer or exempt from the sadness of loss, and my mission is to offer the same support to those in the throes of disease that I would want for my own loved ones- I hope to honor them, to bolster their strength, and to assure them that they are not alone in their fight. Lastly, I ride for those who have lost their lives to cancer, and I hope that somehow it matters now that I'm doing my part to end the disease that killed them.
Cancer has ruinous effects on individuals, but together we are infatigueable and undefeatable. The prospect of going beyond my community, my city, my state, and even my country to reach out to people to discover shared hopes and desires, to hear their stories of love and loss, and to create connections across cicumstantial boundaries is incredibly exciting to me. In an atmosphere of compassion and empathy, whatever the name of the catastrophe it is never the opposite of love.