Throughout the course of my relatively short life, I have been blessed with numerous opportunities to travel across several regions of our beautiful world. As a child these excursions included visits to numerous cities and states across the United States, and later developed into adventures across Europe and the Middle East. These travels have taught me to embrace and respect both the cultural distinctions across observable regional and international boundaries, while simultaneously recognizing the familiarity that humanity shares within its societal constructs. The life lessons and experiences I have gained through these travels have greatly influenced my own personal practice, as well as my independent research interests. As I continue to grow and develop these methodologies, my hope is that each visit to a new city, state, and country will only serve to further fortify these ideas. While I have ambitions to further expand my understanding of the world and its people through future ventures, for now, these locations and the people I have been so grateful to meet are the driving force of my design work.