about

When I’m not test­ing soft­ware, I’m usu­al­ly mak­ing music, knit­ting things, or play­ing board games with friends.

I’m active in music: I take voice lessons, sing with the Utah Sym­pho­ny Cho­rus and a church choir, and record music in my home. My pri­ma­ry instru­ment in col­lege was dou­ble bass, but I only pull that out once or twice a year now, unfor­tu­nate­ly. I play piano near­ly every day and am some­times coerced into play­ing flute for things. Music has been impor­tant in my life for a very long time. Dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, I did audio and video edit­ing for vir­tu­al choirs for church, schools, and myself.

If you want to hear me sing, my YouTube chan­nel is here, and my Sound­Cloud is here. If you want to see and hear some of my singing that isn’t on my YouTube chan­nel, there are just a cou­ple places:

• Win­ter from To the Sea­sons by Gina Gillie, per­formed at a French horn fes­ti­val in Utah in 2026
• Papageno/Papagena duet from the Mag­ic Flute, per­formed for a Mar­di Gras tal­ent show in 2015
• Vir­tu­al choir for Men­sa:
  • Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, made famous by the Andrews Sis­ters
  • We Rise Again
  • Mem­o­ry, from Cats

We have a gluten-free house, and I’m fair­ly adven­tur­ous in the kitchen, which can make for some extra­or­di­nary (or extra­or­di­nar­i­ly ter­ri­ble) meals. When I throw a par­ty, I tend to go all out, espe­cial­ly with food and drink. While oth­ers took up sour­dough dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, I took up smok­ing meats and grilling. I’ve also gar­dened some.

I love knit­ting and can get lost in a project for hours. I’ve won rib­bons at the Utah State Fair for my knit­ting, includ­ing a blue rib­bon for duck sweaters (yes, sweaters made for ducks). I’m a fowl fash­ion­ista.

If you want to see my knit­ting, my Rav­el­ry site is here.

I also love to play board games. We have a decent col­lec­tion of games, and I get togeth­er with friends at least a cou­ple times a month to play games for an evening (or longer). I attend a con­fer­ence annu­al­ly where we judge games and award a spe­cial seal. It’s fun to try new games and see old friends. I pre­fer Euro (strat­e­gy) games, but I enjoy par­ty games and lighter games as well.

I am the lead­er­ship devel­op­ment com­mit­tee chair for Amer­i­can Men­sa. In this role, I make sure Men­sans are pre­pared to lead their local groups, and my pet project has been let­ting Men­sans learn lead­er­ship skills at the hands of experts that ben­e­fit them in their every­day lives as well. It’s a ful­fill­ing role, one that I’ve had since 2021. The “Lev­el Up” pro­gram (my pet project) has been active since 2023 and is cur­rent­ly under­go­ing a bit of trans­for­ma­tion as we move online instead of in-per­son at the Annu­al Gath­er­ing.

I served one term on the board of Amer­i­can Men­sa as well. I was the Region­al Vice Chair for the Far West, which includes the South­west and Hawaii. This was a large role that took up a lot of my time, but I found it ful­fill­ing most of the time. I believe that Men­sa should be a wel­com­ing place where peo­ple can dis­agree, but do so agree­ably, and where kind­ness is over­whelm­ing.

One thing that I’ve become pub­lic about is that I’m polyamorous. I have mul­ti­ple lov­ing, ful­fill­ing rela­tion­ships, and I’ve loved being able to explore and express this side of myself.

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