I grew up in Chicago and Portland, Oregon before attending college in western Massachusetts. After working as a research assistant in Boston, I attended graduate school in Minneapolis. I moved back to Massachusetts for a year as a visiting assistant professor at Mount Holyoke before I began my postdoctoral training in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. In 2012, I returned to Mount Holyoke once again. When I'm not visiting family and friends who are now scattered across the country, I'm most likely doing something outside...