I have been traveling, educating, and making connections internationally since 2005. At the start of graduate study in 2011 I had only rudimentary German reading ability but, by 2013, I could read proficiently in German, Italian, and French. It was in this year that my life would change forever—when my research proposal was selected by an international panel of professionals and I became a Fulbright fellow.

Before moving to Austria I had visited four countries and performed in three, but nothing prepares you for the feeling of immersion while living in a foreign place. Living in Vienna-Hernals and working in Vienna-Hietzing and Carinthia, I absorbed not just culture, but lifestyle and social priorities.

 Other international experience includes travel to and/or research in: