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Teresa M. Delcorso Ellmann is an Assistant Dean in the School of Graduate Studies and founding director of GradFund.
For the past 25 years, Ms. Delcorso-Ellmann’s work at Rutgers University has focused on helping students and scholars develop program and research plans. Her career with the university began in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Dean’s Office where she ran the School’s Career Development office and Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. After three years in the Bloustein School she began to work in the field of external grants and fellowships with the department of Sociology and the FAS Dean’s Office were she was Research Coordinator for the Center for Social Research and Instruction.
In 2000, she joined the Graduate School-New Brunswick Dean’s office as the founding director of GradFund, a peer-mentoring service dedicated to assisting graduate students in identifying and applying for external grants and fellowships. During her tenure with the GradFund, she has helped many graduate students secure merit-based research grants and fellowships.
Teresa has a BA in History and International Affairs from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA and MA in History from Rutgers-Newark.
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.22.3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Andrew Carlson” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/AC_GradFundTeamPhoto-copy.jpg” admin_label=”Andrew Carlson” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]Andrew Carlson is a PhD candidate in the program of Literatures in English, focusing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry, prose, and drama. His dissertation explores the relationship between classical visual culture and Renaissance theories of poetic value. His work has been supported by previous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Folger Shakespeare Library. During the 2018-2019 academic year, he is working as a Fellowship Advisor at GradFund and exploring postdoctoral opportunities. He also has an article forthcoming in English Literary History on monsters and versification in the work of Edmund Spenser.
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Raffaella Fusco” position=”Communication and Outreach Assistant” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Fusco_Raffaella-1.jpg” admin_label=”Raffaella Fusco” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]Raffaella Fusco is a doctoral student in the Department of Italian. Her research interests lie in fascism, immigration, national identity, and translation. In the upcoming year, as she continues her dissertation research, Raffaella plans on applying to awards that will support her archival research and dissertation writing. In her free time, she enjoys jogging, coloring, playing tennis, and board gaming.
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Jorie Hofstra” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JH_GradFundTeamPhoto.jpg” disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Jorie Hofstra” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]Jorie Hofstra is a PhD candidate in Sociology and a Fellowship Advisor at GradFund. Her work on narrative, emotion, and identity among people with brain injuries has been funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Award from the NSF. Other current projects include a collaboration with an archaeologist on a study of votive offerings excavated from ancient Greek sanctuaries of healing. She is currently on the market for an academic position.
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.23.3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” disabled_on=”off|off|off”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Maria Elizabeth Roldan” position=”Peer Mentor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MER_GradFund-photo.jpg” admin_label=”Maria Elizabeth” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]María Elizabeth Roldán is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature. Her research analyzes questions of identity formation and power structures found in the literatures by and about slaves in the US, Brazil and the Caribbean from the 17th up to the early 20th century. She is a 2017-2021 Ford Predoctoral fellow and a Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis 2018-2019 fellow for the Black Bodies seminar. She also received an American Antiquarian Society (AAS) CHAViC Summer fellowship in 2017 and an American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) fellowship in 2016. This academic year, she plans to apply for dissertation completion fellowships. In her spare time, María Elizabeth enjoys spending time with her family, as well as visiting museums and art exhibits.
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Marian Thorpe” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MAT_GradFundTeamPhoto-copy.jpg” admin_label=”Marian Thorpe” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]Marian Ahn Thorpe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. Her research examines the right of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in the context of mining and hydroelectric projects in Panamanian Indigenous communities. Her research was funded by a fellowship from the InterAmerican Foundation for Grassroots Development. During the 2018-2019 academic year, Marian will be applying for postdoctoral research opportunities. She is originally from Washington State.
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Dawn Wells” position=”Peer Mentor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DW_GradFundTeamPhoto-copy.jpg” admin_label=”Dawn Wells” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]Dawn Wells is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Rutgers University. She studies Australian migration to the United States through the lens of whiteness and settler colonial studies, affect, and cosmopolitan studies. She is a National Science Foundation Summer Institute for Research Design fellow, and is currently preparing applications for the Josephine de Karman Fellowship and the Lionel Murphy Postgraduate Scholarship. Dawn lives in New York City with her husband and three step-kids.
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Alumni Fellowship Advisors
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”3.22.3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Daniel Browe” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Daniel-Browe_GradFund-photo-copy.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Daniel Browe” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on”]Daniel Browe is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers, where he is researching biomaterial development for skeletal muscle tissue engineering. He works as a Peer Mentor for GradFund. He has been awarded a Rutgers Presidential Fellowship, a Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship, and an NSF-GRF Honorable Mention. During the 2016-2017 application season, he will be applying for the Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship and the National Institutes of Health’s Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31). He is originally from Pennsylvania.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Tim Bransford” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/TB_GradFundTeamPhoto-1.jpg” admin_label=”Tim Bransford” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled_on=”on|on|on” disabled=”on”]Tim Bransford is currently a PhD Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology. His research focuses on the energetics of wild mother orangutans, and he conducts both fieldwork on Borneo, Indonesia and lab work at the Rutgers Laboratory for Primate Dietary Ecology and Physiology. While at Rutgers, Tim has received a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant and multiple small grants. During the 2018-2019 academic year, Tim plans on exploring available post-doc positions around the US and Canada. In his free time, Tim likes to hike up mountains and play with his dogs.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Samantha Lee, PhD” position=”Senior Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Samantha-Lee-GradFund-photo-B.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Samantha Lee” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” disabled=”on”]Samantha Lee, PhD, is a graduate of the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology at Rutgers, where she completed a dissertation entitled Fungal volatile organic compounds: Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of volatile-mediated plant-microbe interactions. She is currently researching the impact of mycotoxins, specifically trichothecenes, on lipid metabolism and biosynthesis. She works at GradFund as a Senior Fellowship Advisor. She has received several grants and fellowships including a USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research Grant, a Mycological Society of America Graduate Fellowship, a Theobald Smith Society Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, and a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. During the 2016-2017 application season, she will be applying for a USDA Small Business Innovation Research grant and a NIFA Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative. She is originally from New Jersey.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Caroline Pantazis” position=”Peer Mentor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CP_GradFundTeamPhoto-1.jpg” admin_label=”Caroline Pantazis” _builder_version=”3.23.3″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled_on=”on|on|on” disabled=”on”]
Caroline B. Pantazis is a doctoral candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. Her research focuses on brain regions responsible for motivation for cocaine in addiction. She received an F31 Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse in 2015 for four years of her graduate education. In her spare time, Caroline enjoys cooking and yoga.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Carolyn Ureña ” position=”Blog Editor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Carolyn-Urena_GradFund-photo.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Carolyn Urena” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on”]Carolyn Ureña is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. Her dissertation, Invisible Wounds: Rethinking Recognition in Decolonial Narratives of Illness and Disability, brings the racial-phenomenological perspective of Frantz Fanon into conversation with discourses of black lived experience and bodily disruption in US and Caribbean literature and film. She works as a Fellowship Advisor at GradFund. Carolyn was awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and was selected as a Modern Language Association Connected Academics Proseminar Fellow for 2016-2017. As a graduate student, she has been awarded two Mellon Summer Study grants, a grant from the Centers for Global Advancement and International affairs, and was named a Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship alternate. During the 2016-2017 season, Carolyn will be applying for humanities post-docs and faculty positions. She is originally from New York.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Kris White” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Kris-White-GradFund-photo.jpg” admin_label=”Kris White” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled_on=”on|on|on” disabled=”on”]Kris White is a PhD candidate in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. During his time at Rutgers, he has received the NSF GAANN Fellowship and has spent multiple years instructing undergraduate courses. His dissertation work focuses on tissue engineering, with an emphasis on skin and bone, using biomaterials derived from seashells and synthetic polymers. He is currently writing his dissertation and will be exploring postdoctoral research opportunities. He is originally from Arkansas.
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Miya Carey” position=”Peer Mentor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Miya-Carey_GradFund-photo.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Miya Carey” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on”]Miya Carey is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Rutgers, where she is working on a dissertation that examines black girls’ organizations in Washington, DC as a way to understand shifting meanings of black girlhood throughout the twentieth century. She works as a Peer Mentor at GradFund. She has received a Mellon-Moorland Research Travel Grant and an Albert J. Beveridge Award for American History from the American Historical Association to support her dissertation research. During the 2016-2017 application season, she will be applying for the Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship and the Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. She is originally from New Jersey.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Lytton McDonnell” position=”Peer Mentor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Lytton-M_GradFund-Photo-copy.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”LyttonMcDonnell” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on”]Lytton McDonnell is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Rutgers, where he is writing a dissertation on the historical intersections of music, emotion, and altered states of consciousness in the US. He works as a Peer Mentor at GradFund. He has been awarded a Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship, Mellon SAS Summer Grants, and internal funding from the Rutgers Graduate School and History Department. During the 2016-2017 application season, he will not be applying for any grants. He is originally from Canada.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Senem Kaptan” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Kaptan-GradFund-Photo-copy-1.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Senem Kaptan” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on”]Senem Kaptan is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Rutgers. Her dissertation is an ethnographic examination of the treason trials of military officers in contemporary Turkey. She works as a Fellowship Advisor at GradFund. She has been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, a Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, and has received various awards at Rutgers, including a PreDoctoral Leadership Development Institute Fellowship, a Bigel Fellowship for Pre-Dissertation Research, a Special Study Opportunity Award for Pre-Dissertation Research, and a Graduate School Excellence Fellowship. During the 2016-2017 application season, she will not be applying for any grants. She is originally from Turkey.
[/et_pb_team_member][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_team_member name=”Kate O’Neill” position=”Peer Mentor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Kate-O_GradFund-photo-copy-2.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Kate O’Neill” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on”]Kate O’Neill is a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program at Rutgers, where she is working on a dissertation entitled The role of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in the protection of hippocampal neuron networks after glutamate-induced excitotoxicity. She works as a Peer Mentor at GradFund. She has been awarded a Rutgers GAANN Program Fellowship in “Personalized & Precision Medicine,” an Honorable Mention in the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition, a Society of Women Engineers SWE Region E Scholarship, a New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research Predoctoral Fellowship, an Executive Women of New Jersey Graduate Merit Scholarship, and an NIH-funded Rutgers-RWJMS Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship. During the 2016-2017 application season, she will be applying for the Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32). She is originally from New Jersey.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Ben Arenger, PhD” position=”Postdoctoral Associate in Fellowship Advising” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ben-Arenger_GradFund-photo-copy-2-3.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Ben Arenger” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on”]Ben Arenger, PhD, has served as a Postdoctoral Associate since July of 2016 at the Office of External Fellowships at the Rutgers Graduate School of New Brunswick. Earlier this year, he completed his doctoral studies in Spanish literature after he defended his dissertation, Refiguring Universalisms: The Case of Three Postmodern Spanish Novels. His research was supported by a grant he received from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture & United States’ Universities. Ben has been a Fellowship Adviser at GradFund since 2012 where he has helped graduate students write successful applications for awards such as the Fulbright, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRF), and the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC IDF). Ben grew up in Massachusetts.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Dara Walker” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Dara-Walker-GradFund-photo.jpg” disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Dara Walker” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on”]Dara Walker is a PhD candidate in the History Department, where she studies African American History and 20th-Century US History. Dara’s dissertation, They Dared to Fight: Black High School Student Activism in Detroit During the Black Power Movement, 1966-1972, examines the ways in which black youth conceptualized power, politics, and citizenship in the era of Black Power. Dara is works as a Fellowship Advisor at GradFund. She has been awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and a SAS Summer Mellon Grant. She has also been named a semi-finalist for the NAEd/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and was awarded a Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention. She is currently applying for postdoctoral fellowships and tenure-track positions. Dara is originally from Washington, DC.
[/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Cathy Wineinger” position=”Fellowship Advisor” image_url=”https://gradfund.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CW_GradFundTeamPhoto-copy.jpg” admin_label=”Cathy Wineinger” _builder_version=”3.23.3″ header_letter_spacing=”0″ header_line_height=”1″ body_letter_spacing=”0″ body_line_height=”1.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled_on=”on|on|on” disabled=”on”]
Cathy Wineinger is a PhD candidate in Political Science. Her dissertation explores the gendered effects of party polarization in Congress. Cathy has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies, a Congressional Research Grant from The Dirksen Congressional Center, and the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. She was also an alternate for the AAUW Dissertation Fellowship. She is currently on the academic job market and will also be exploring post-doctoral opportunities this application season. Cathy grew up in California and, outside of work, you can find her at the beach with her family, teaching yoga, or playing roller derby.
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