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I grew up on a small farm in central New Hampshire. My family raises flowers, and as 4-H projects my siblings and I trained oxen and bred a pedigree Simmental cattle herd. I later started working with draft horses and was employed by a local farm/zoo driving horses for hayrides and working with exotic wildlife. I have spent much of my life outside working on the farm, constructing and renovating houses, biking, sailing, and hiking in the White Mountains. |
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I began playing music when I was eight years old. After unsuccessful attempts to learn piano, I picked up the fiddle at age ten and soon started playing the dulcimer and banjo as well. After a number of years I finally convinced my parents to let me take bagpipe lessons. I promised to practice outside. Bagpipes are now my primary instrument, and I play the Great Highland Bagpipes, Scottish Smallpipes, and Border pipes. Since 1999, I have been a member of the Celtic-fusion band Clan Du, and we have performed throughout the Northeastern US and have recorded three CDs. |
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I was home schooled from the third grade through high school, and attended Ocean Classroom before beginning my undergraduate education at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts. I was a political science major with philosophy and history minors, and wrote a senior honors thesis on judicial reconstruction after genocide.
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In 2005 I received a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, and in 2007 a Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission Scholarship, which led to an LLM International Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and an MSc Criminology & Criminal Justice at Oxford University, England.
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