What do you do?
I serve as the Dean of Students at Northwest Indian College, located on the Lummi Indian Reservation.
Advice/words of wisdom that affected your life you’d like to pass on?
The best pieces of advice I received have often been the most simple, but carry strong lessons. I would pass on to others to always do your best. In anything you do, it’s important to be your best and most authentic self. While it can be hard to do that during difficult or challenging times, when you are able to do that and reflect on it later, you can be proud of your choices and the way you carried yourself through those difficult times. The other most important piece of guidance I have used was just to think. Think about what you are doing and why. Think about how you want to carry yourself and how you want to present yourself to the world. Think about your decisions and how you may impact other people and their thoughts and feelings. It’s not always easy to think rather than to react, but it has served me well and I encourage any human on earth to think more deeply about anything and everything and to be curious about the world around them.