Early career preferences include being an interior designer, figure skater, vocal pathologist, forensic scientist, English professor, and Broadway star.

Because I work in environmental conservation, there are several assumptions people often make about me. Let's set the record straight: I'm not vegetarian/vegan (but I am trying to eat more vegetables), I'm not a minimalist (my lipsticks alone...), and I don't live a plastic-free life (but I try to avoid unnecessary single-use disposable packaging).

I have perennial allergic rhinitis. I'm allergic to almost all seafood. I'm fatally allergic to ibuprofen and flour mites.

My home is never without popcorn, red wine, and peanut butter.

I think in puns and wordplay.

Topics I can speak about with as much passion as work: skincare, Evernote, font choices, the proper use of punctuation marks, semantics, Xiaomi products, and lipsticks.

Quotes I live by:

• "Don't preach to the choir - build the choir.

• "Everyone has an invisible sign that says 'notice me.'"

• "The harder you work, the luckier you become."