I grew up in the absolutely wonderful city of Bombay, in India, though I never realized how much I loved the city until I actually left it. The name change is an attempt by the fundamentalist Hindu party Shiv Sena at de-Anglicizing names. I vehemently disagree with the policies of the Shiv Sena, and Bombay has been called Bombday for about 500 years. That is what the city is, and will be to me.

I spent the last two years of high school at the United World College of India. The United World Colleges are a group of 10 institutions all over the world that bring together students from many different countries. It forces young people to break out of cultural, ethnic and national boundaries and connect at a different level. During my time, the UWC of India (affectionately called MUWCI) consisted of 70 nationalities represented in its population of 200 students. And unlike most international schools, the UWC's are not meant to serve the social elite, in fact, most students come from humble backgrounds supported by finances raised by their respective National Committees.

Next came Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA where I spent four years. My time here was when I began to develop a strong ecological and social consciousness.

In my senior year, I did an honors thesis based on the Daisyworld Model which shows how the biotic components of an ecosystem may regulate its abiotic factors so that life perpetuated. Here is my thesis and the talk I gave to my committee.

Before moving to Seattle, I spent a year teaching high school math and physics at Trinity Collegiate School in South Carolina.