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About Me

I grew up on a small organic farm in New England. When I left for college I thought I was leaving rural agriculture behind forever. Man, was I wrong. I burned out on classical languages, cramming six years' study into four, so I took a job at Zingerman's Deli, a well-regarded food store in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was there that I learned the pleasurable side of traditional food.

As a purchaser at Zingerman's, I also saw the ways the law shaped the American diet -- ways not always salutary. I went to law school with the intention of helping places like Zingerman's, but more importantly, of helping the small food producers I was buying foods from.

Student loans make cowards of us all. More precisely, they limit our options to those jobs and career paths which guarantee a stable income until we can pay off our loans. I have not, in fact, paid off mine, but I had a series of life-is-too-short lessons recently.

I am looking for ways to do what I wanted to do when I applied to law school: use my law degree to support small farmers and food producers.