Two of my essays were published in this year’s edition of Cal Poly’s Fresh Voices.
Argumentative / public rhetoric, Fresh Voices
A letter to the moon about rocket pollution. It starts with a launch I watched at nine and asks why our first feeling about something vivid so often closes the case, braiding the psychology of how we judge risk with what rockets actually do to the atmosphere.
Personal narrative, Fresh Voices
A revenge story where the villain is me. A mogul-skiing crash at thirteen broke my collarbone and my bubble of overconfidence, and I’m still not sure I learned the right lesson.
Marin Academy graduation welcome, 2025
Nominated by my 113 classmates to welcome everyone to our graduation. When I passed my pilot’s checkride, my examiner told me my license was “a license to learn.” The speech unpacks that into three ideas for leaving school: permission, potential and responsibility.
Senior speech, Marin Academy
A wingfoiling story about the time the Coast Guard had to pull me out of the middle of the San Francisco Bay, and what Top Gun gets right (and wrong) about going for it.