Language Skills

Native Spanish speaker.  Advanced proficiency in French & Italian. Proficient in Portuguese.

Upcoming/Continuing Personal Projects

Upcoming Personal Projects:

• hike and be out in nature as much as possible
• continue to show my family and loved ones how amazing they are and how much I love them
• develop a financial literacy curriculum for young professionals coming from underprivileged backgrounds
• read minimum one book per week 
• run my first marathon, train for my upcoming half-marathon 
• learn Flamenco!
• book more speaking engagements
• write for another major publication  
• keynote a major  event

Continuing Projects:

• develop and launch an app
• finish learning how to play the guitar 
• finish my first book 
• expand the reach of happinizing
• launch an online course 

Long-term Projects: (just a sampling of my long-term goals)

• give a Ted Talk
• radically and positively improve the lives of a billion++ people via my career 
• travel to space

Interests

Futurist. Runner. Salsa dancer. Lover of Learning. Happinizer.

Academic interests:

  More generally:  Behavioral Economics (and Keynesian Economics in Policy Setting); Neuroscience; Genomics/Epigenetics; Psychology (positive psychology specifically) ; Anthropology; Exponential Technologies; Corporate and Organizational Culture, and Sociology, among  many, many  others.

   Previous Research Topics of Interest

• Secure Communities and the Criminalization of Immigration Policy;
• the Intersection of Criminal Law and Genomics/Epigenetics;
• the Utilization of Neuroscience to Further Criminal Justice Policy and Legislation;
• International Criminal Law, Affairs, & Relations generally.

  I want to use an interdisciplinary, science-focused approach to help formulate  laws and policies for the local, national, and international arena.

Websites/Blogs I follow: TED, livescience, Nova.

Travel/Activities