I attended the dual degree law and psychology JD/PhD program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, graduating Order of the Coif from UNL Law and receiving my PhD in jury decision-making psychology.

We are not very good at interpreting our own emotions. We often can misattribute feelings created by one source to another. For example, men who had just crossed a rickety, frightening bridge were more likely to pursue a relationship with a woman they met shortly after crossing than were men who had walked across a safer bridge. These men misattributed their pounding hearts and sweaty palms caused by the scary bridge as attraction for the woman.

The collaborative environment. Everybody’s input is valued and everyone encourages one another to succeed.

When the consultants get together for a brainstorm session. It’s an opportunity for us to challenge one another and to combine and apply our different skills.

I am originally from Cape Town, South Africa and grew up with mountains and two oceans on my doorstep. As a teenager, I moved to Toronto, Canada, and lived there for ten years before moving to America for graduate school.

I’m a big hockey fan (it’s the Canadian in me!) and I enjoy hiking, the more precarious the better.