Most of my career was spent representing musicians and dancers, first as a manager and later as a publicist in California (San Francisco and Los Angeles). I eventually wound up in sports, which is how I ended up living in North Carolina. After about a full year of covering NASCAR for an online magazine and traveling back and forth between NC and CA, I was offered a full-time position as a communications manager with a NASCAR team, and I took it.
I moved to NC in 2007, and traveled so much with NASCAR that I maybe visited my home once a week, but I enjoyed it. At the end of that year I was laid-off and unsure of what to do next. The looming job crisis that I had been caught up in, quickly spread across the country and I needed to figure out what to do. I put everything in storage and spent 2008 working on music projects in Los Angeles and New York. After interviewing for a job where I was told I would need to be able to talk about football all day, I realized that a major transformation was in order.
There have always been issues or causes that I have been involved with, but I had never thought about how to work on any of them full-time and get paid, until that moment. This process led me back to school in pursuit of a Political Science degree.
I am what is referred to as a non-traditional student. I attend UNC Charlotte in NC and have almost completed a BA in International Studies with a European concentration, a BA in Political Science, and a minor in Africana studies.
Currently, I am studying abroad at King’s College London and this blog started as a way to chronicle my travels in Europe with my sister, other family members and on my own. I am not sure what form it will take once I return home, but there should be plenty of stories to tell…