My Bio

I was born on April 4th, 1980 in Los Angeles but we moved to Australia when I was a few months old. After graduating high school, I took a gap year to work and travel and then went on to Bard College in upstate New York, where I majored in Asian Studies. I graduated in 2003 and was invited to film The Dalai Lama inaugurating the first Tibetan Buddhist monastic college in India. I then decided that I wanted to pursue a career in cinematography. I moved to L.A. and began to work as a camera assistant. I finally felt that I had found my calling but then I fell ill and could no longer handle the physical intensity of the job. I was out of commission for a year or more but thanks to acupuncture I was able to get back on my feet. In the meantime, I fell in love with someone who lived in Berkeley, which is how I wound up here. After taking the Medical Qi Gong Program with Suzanne Friedman, I was inspired to learn more about Chinese Medicine so I finally took the leap and applied to AIMC. This is my first trimester.