I grew up in East Hampton, NY and went to Emma Willard in Albany for high school, after which I studied biology at Mount Holyoke College. I then moved out to Boston and started doing academic research involving protein folding and Alzheimer's Disease, which resulted in several publications. For over a year, I did assay development for antibodies and cancer therapeutics at a biotech company in MA, where I also gained certifications in chemical hygiene and hazmat response. In Fall 2006, I began the journey to get my PhD in biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at UMass Medical School in Worcester. I hope to go back into biotech afterwards but continue having a research-oriented career focus. In the next few years, my goals include getting another car and a dog! I currently drive a '93 Sentra SE-R and would like to turn it into a dedicated racer. In terms of motorsports, I particularly love F1 and being crew chief for Trunkmonkey Racing.

I grew up in Huntington, NY for 14 years before moving to central Massachusetts with my family and starting high school. After a short time at Uxbridge High School, I enrolled in the Massachusetts Academy for Math and Science at WPI. After that, tired of living in central MA, I ventured out to Ann Arbor, MI for college at the University of Michigan. I studied cognitive and computer sciences there, and rediscovered my latent interest in computer graphics and virtual reality. After school, I moved back to New England and began work as a systems engineer at a small R&D company in New Hampshire. My work generally centers around software and hardware design for virtual and augmented reality systems, and recently, gaming and entertainment systems. So far, I have six issued US patents on my inventions, with more pending. My other interests include motorsports (particularly rallying, where I'm the co-driver for the Trunkmonkey Racing rally team) and photography.

Lame as it is, we met online! We were both on emode.com looking to meet more people, and Andrew emailed me and we began talking often. We met for sushi in Boston and went for coffee on Newbury Street the first night we met; we sat in the Copley square park talking for hours. We started spending a lot of time together driving around, going to beaches and out to clubs and dinners. He helped me move into my new apartment and we just fell into dating right away (Sept 1, 2003!), and never looked back. The next year was a whirlwind introduction to the world of motorsports (including karting, auto repair projects, trips to watch races and rallies all over the northeast) and barbecue cuisine (through alarmingly frequent trips to Redbones in Davis Square, where I was living). A year later, we moved in together in Nashua, and we just seem to keep getting happier!