I'm a 27-year-old tutor, teacher, and graduate student at California State University East Bay. When I'm not here writing car reviews (which, as of late, has been the vast majority of time), I'm either hiking, camping, or more typically, working. My current research project is on the design and content preferences expressed by potential users of reproductive health education websites.

A little background on my reviews: they're are almost entirely based on test-drives (at dealerships or manufacturer ride-and-drives), and not on personal ownership. This means you won't find first-hand reliability information in my reviews--you'll find reviews by owners to be much more helpful in that respect. On the other hand, you may find my reviews to be less colored by personal experience--I have no emotional or financial attachment to the vehicle I'm reviewing, and have usually driven most (sometimes all) of the models it competes against.

I started posting reviews here as an undergraduate at UC Davis, mostly to help improve my writing skills. But I also aim to be as helpful as possible to Epinions readers shopping for a new car--if you have any car-related queries, I'll enjoy trying to answering them.