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"What if it all works out?" My close friend Axel and I kept texting each other this throughout 2025. We met in March for the first time in years. That first night I stayed with him in Singapore, we chatted on his couch until some absurd hour of the night, our eyes watering both from laughing at childish jokes and from crying as we shared our struggles (I dare you to watch this and not laugh). It was a microcosm of my year, waves of joy and waves of pain. It honestly feels RE

I remember being a little kid at school seeing other kids sitting alone at lunch. I can still picture the cafeteria, so many tables full of kids laughing together while eating, but other tables with just 1-2 kids sitting across from each other in silence. I always felt this urge to sit with the kids who seemed isolated and make them laugh. I'd wonder if they were maybe too scared to approach people they didn't know. Or felt different because of what they were eating, or where

In university, I had an incredible mentor. Michael Cochise Young. She was the director of the Flinn Scholars program, a program focused on who each of us could become and the impact we could have. We were meant to become an agents of discovery, creativity and leadership who will make a difference. Michael would meet with me often through my undergraduate years, and over and over she’d repeat a phrase that has always stuck with me: Disturbing the Equilibrium. The idea behind t

“Only the most broken people can be great leaders.” With this quote begins the trailer for the new Black Panther movie, Wakanda Forever ( epic trailer btw, put on some noise-cancelling headphones and watch if you want some inspiration..and goosebumps). I find the above quote particularly powerful because it offers a truly meaningful invitation, central to my journey over the past year: in order to develop as humans, we need to be willing to break ourselves down to our core,