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Basically, I have been in school for more years than anyone in my family thought possible. Did my undergraduate degree at Cornell, in upstate New York. While there, I met Matt, and together we spent time studying in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. After I graduated, I moved to Guatemala, where I did human rights advocacy for a couple of years. Matt and I got married when we returned to the states. Then I decided I needed more education, so did a MA at Tulane, in New Orleans. I don't remember those years very well. Then we moved back to New York, where Matt and I both went to NYU - him for a journalism degree, and me for a PhD in sociology. While doing dissertation research in Guatemala, I got pregnant (Matt was the culprit), and had Marcus in 2004. We lived for a couple of years in Albany, NY, where Matt worked as a journalist, and I wrote my dissertation. Then, in 2006, I got a job at the University of Utah. This prompted what one of my friends refered to as my "westward walk of shame." In all seriousness, I'm very happy to be back in Utah. Having been away for nearly 20 years, I appreciate the natural beauty of the area, the friendly people, and of course my family, all the more. We added one more person to the planet last year: Maxwell, now one year old. Matt now works as an urban policy analyst for a national think tank, and I am a professor here in the Department of Sociology. Marcus starts kindergarten in a few weeks. We're hoping he won't spend as long in school as his mom.
