As an educational nonprofit consultant, I was inspired by my early work -- and play! -- with children, and influenced by co-workers who brought passion and commitment to the job.
I was an interning Engineer on the Great Highway in San Francisco when I was eighteen years old. I had just completed my first year of Civil Engineering at U.C. Berkeley, and donning boots and a hard hat was a welcome change to my word processing job that required typing 80 words a minute.