I grew up in Kansas and moved to Oklahoma in 2001 to attend the University of Oklahoma on a National Merit Scholarship. I majored in Physics and East Asian Area Studies, but decided to leave school to pursue my interests in community organizing, cooperative businesses, and sustainability projects. I started the Oklahoma Cooperative Housing Association, put on the Groovefest human rights festival, organized a conference for the Oklahoma Sustainability Network, worked for Earth Elements Farm and Bakery, worked for and sat on the board of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, owned and operated an organic gourmet mushroom farm, Om Gardens, for four years, wrote and won 5 grants totaling over $35,000, and been involved with many other organizations and projects, helping whenever I can.   I am currently in the Master's Degree program at Gaia University studying Regenerative Enterprise Design.