About Me

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About:

I’m a second-year graduate student in the climate group at the Jackson School of Geosciences, and a former physics and anthropology double-major at lovely Grinnell College in Iowa. A non-Texan, I grew up in St. Louis, where my family and major league baseball loyalties remain.
I’ve been biking as a hobby for a few years including three long tours, twice across Iowa on the world-famous RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) and once from New Orleans to Memphis with two friends. After college I worked on cross-state bicycle tours in the eastern US, and squeezed in some international travel before heading to Texas. While life as a graduate student is great so far, I spend too much time inside. I can't wait until June 2011.

Why I Ride

If we fight cancer with the same toughness and desperation that its survivors, and victims, embody, we can turn the tables. In that spirit, every day is important. The more people we can get in the fight, the more powerful we will be. Cancer is so prevalent that many of us won’t choose to join, but will be spurred to do so by the loss of someone close, as I was by the loss of my mother, Leslie Moore. Thus, cancer awareness spreads itself through tragedy. But in order to get ahead we must reach out pre-emptively to potential donors, activists, and others not yet engaged. This ride offers the chance to do that, and partake in an incredible adventure. If cancer teaches us anything it is that such opportunities may come only once in a lifetime.