Favorite Quote: 
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

President Theodore Roosevelt

I am the Health Care Policy Analyst/ Organizer for the Campaign for America's Future. I was born and raised in Southern California. I began working on progressive causes as a teenager in the environmental movement. I was introduced to grassroots organizing by the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG), and fell in love with the progressive activist lifestyle. I also worked on Moveon.org's Leave no Voter Behind Campaign for the 2004 Presidential Election in Cincinnati, Ohio.