>> So I went to Rollins and my major was originally computer science for about a year
and I switched over to environmental studies and kind
of found my home there that's just I loved everything about it and always had a concern
for the environment, so that was a really good fit for me but I wasn't sure
which direction I wanted to take it, you know, you're in school you know what you're passionate
about but you might not know how to turn that into a job one day
and exactly how that's going fit into your life, so my senior seminar was environmental planning
with Bruce Stevenson and he talked to us a lot about urban planning,
and sort of that juxtaposition between urban living and the environment
and the natural environment versus urban environment and how you can help design one
to protect the other and not only to protect the environment, but those benefits to us
from the environment and how you can tap into that through urban design
and it's just a really interesting field to me that I was sort of introduced to via that class.
So, when I graduated from Rollins in 2004 my first job was working with a planning
and engineering firm and I got a job as an environmental planner and really enjoyed it,
did a lot of project management and working with developers and with communities and just fell
in love with it so I eventually went on to get my master's degree in urban
and regional planning at the University of Florida which I really enjoyed.