Aside from my formal education and experiences growing up in New York City, nothing has shaped my development more than being able to see, feel and experience people and places that were outside my normal boundaries of New York City.

NYC may be the greatest city in the world, but the residents there often live in a bubble that they are uniquely unaware of. If all you know is life in the city, you get a very skewered perspective of what much of America is like, let alone the world. READ MORE