Member Spotlight

 

 

I am a born and raised Duluthian, and feel like I have the unique experience of having attended a broad mix of Duluth area schools beginning with Holy Rosary, and moving on through the Edison charter system before heading to Duluth Central for High School and graduating from Duluth East. I graduated as a Webster Scholar from the College of St.
Scholastica in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Global, Culture, and Language Studies with
concentrations in Business Management and Spanish Language. 

Living just a few blocks from the Superior Hiking Trail my partner, Nic, and I really love to utilize the trail systems and plenitude of parks for exercise. We walk our two furbabies, Odie and Dixie, nearly every day and our first date was actually a hike on the Split Rock River loop trail. It's actually a pretty entertaining story, as I was woefully ill-prepared for a 5-mile hike as a novice. 

Nic works at Northern Waters Smokehouse as an all-around food innovator and people person managing their prep department. Like any good Millennial couple, we enjoy eating and drinking our way through new places, playing cribbage, and hosting friends and family in our home. We bought a house just down the street from our last apartment on Nic's birthday in 2017 and have been dutifully working on it ever since.  We'll be heading to the Bahamas with close friends this February, and I think both of us are very excited to experience some warmth this winter. 

We have accepted the fact that our dogs are basically children, as having a puppy is something akin to having a forever-toddler. Odie is a three-year-old rescue from South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation; we got him at 8 weeks as a test of our patience and love for one another (ha!); and Dixie, also a rescue and (we think) around
3 years old, joined us just over a year ago when we picked her up from her shelter foster family in Chisholm. Dixie loves going hunting with Nic or showing off how easily she can jump our backyard fence to eat bunny poo. Odie is happiest running through snow banks and open fields or fishing sticks out of Lake Superior. They
are both high-energy pups that keep us honest when it comes to getting outside and exercising year-round. 

I speak Spanish, and a little bit of French, Haitian Creole, and Catalan. Spanish and French I've studied in school, while Creole and Catalan come from personal interest and independent study. 

I love being a new member and meeting new people each week. Having worked as a bartender for so long, I have a genuine interest in people and connections, and I feel that Duluth, and Duluth Rotary Club especially, is a great example of the good that comes from a heavily interconnected community.