I moved to Austin Texas when I was 8 years old and grew up riding bikes on the green belt of Bull Creek Park. I am now a senior at the University of Texas working on a degree in Japanese language and culture as well as a minor in business. I am also a teacher assistant for Dr. Cleveland�??s MIS Foundations in the Red Mccomb�??s Business School at the University of Texas, and I sit as community represenative on the board of directors for College House Inc. I have held several jobs, but none have come close to providing me the altruistic fullfilment that Texas 4000 offers through its mission. I look forward to helping inspire people and learn more about myself with this program.

I work hard to give to the world. Ghandi had said, �??You must be the change you want to see in the world.�?� Now comes the time in my life to give myself towards a change of so much suffering. I am motivated by the adventure and the opportunity to achieve a great charitable cause. I cry over the love I have lost to cancer, Grandma, so I will fight to improve the lives of the people I still have. Thus, I seek to make a difference in improving these facts given by the American Cancer Society:

۰ 1.3 million people contract cancer every year in US

۰ An estimate of 1/2 men and 1/3 women will develop a form of cancer

۰ Between 65% and 85% of cancer deaths are preventable through healthy living

habits and early detection screening.

۰ Five year cancer survival rates have increased from 38% in 1960 to 62% in 1999.