Born and raised in North Dakota, I have spent the five years since graduating from Jamestown College moving about, most recently living in Indonesia. My two years in Texas included completing a master’s degree at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, serving as an AmeriCorps volunteer in a local elementary school, and an internship at Public Strategies. Before the ink was dry on the lambskin from UT, I moved to New Orleans to begin work for Freeport-McMoRan. The two year stint in New Orleans included MBA work at Tulane University, an evacuation to Minneapolis after Hurricane Katrina, and plenty of adventures in the French Quarter. I now live in Jakarta with my wife, Irene, two daughters, Erica and Dakota, and niece, Maria.
