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“My mom was always a dancer at heart, so, when I was three, she enrolled me in dance classes. She also opened a dance studio when I was seven  years old. Dancing was [...]

“You could say I was born into a sports home. My dad played college football at UC Davis, and my mom ran track and played soccer throughout high school. When I got to [...]

“Many years ago, I joined a local bike club. I participated in organized rides and local challenges with set routes and rest stops. However, I found myself wanting even more of a challenge; [...]

“I became interested in computer science at 14 when I saw my best friend’s older sister coding. She told me about her experience in the field and suggested I try it out.  My [...]

“I travelled a lot as a kid. My parents would always give me the family camera, and I got really into taking the pictures on the trips. When I went to high school, [...]

“I was a teacher for 40 years, and, once I retired, my husband and I traveled around the world. I retired in 2007, and we traveled until Covid hit. We went on about [...]

“When I was 11 or 12 MTV came out, and my friends and I would watch music videos straight through until dinner. I saw people playing instruments in the videos and I became [...]

“When I was in the third grade I used to write stories in my poetry class. I guess my dad encouraged me as a kid to write. He was my first reader, and [...]

“I love to paint, I love music and teaching myself how to play instruments. Just anything in the arts really. I'm writing a screenplay right now and I've written six books. I didn't [...]

“I started out when I was an undergraduate at UCLA. I was in the Weather Department, which is now Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and as a freshman I was exposed to upper atmospheric [...]

"I have been a hospice volunteer since 1992.  I visit my patients about once a week. My role as a volunteer is to keep them company so they feel less lonely than they [...]

“I am an athletic woman who is passionate about my daughter and about the biotech industry where I am a business executive. I am the newly appointed Chief Business Officer of an immuno [...]