I am able to draw a straight line from my experiences at K-State through the professional path I currently enjoy. My major was journalism... This is where I first learned to write, and that skill has been an integral part ever since of who I am and what I do.

As a small-town kid growing up 90 miles from Manhattan, I longed to see the world, so when I stepped into my first anthropology class at K-State I knew it was the right major for me... Now I am an anthropology professor at the place that inspired it all and I get to travel the world looking for great untold stories.