January 12, 2006

An Eclectic History Leads to a New Career in Economic-Justice Work

My first true love was biology, and I went to college thinking that I wanted to do pre-med. I arrived at my Dad's alma mater, Amherst College, which had just gone co-ed, and didn't know enough to seek out allies as a mixed-heritage Asian-American female going into the sciences. So without even asking anyone or saying, "This is what I want to do," I dropped pre-med and switched to anthropology, because it helped me apply my curiosity to the question of how people create their lives and find

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