In response to our postcard query to find out what people were up to, we received dozens of emails, regular old USPS messages, and quite a few wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa cards. I am the sole Research Associate in a project for which I conduct and then help to analyze qualitative interviews with HIV patients to understand the effects of an HIV diagnosis on their heroin or cocaine use. I am hired on a two year grant, after which I hope to go back to school for an MD and Master's in Public Health. I was living in Boston for a while but have recently moved west. I've been running the west coast office out of my bedroom, in Oregon for a while and now in San Francisco.
Physical geography keeps resurfacing on a daily basis.
The la nina effect, if that is accurate, is making me freeze during my commute. We develop and own permanent affordable rental housing, primarily for families but also serving seniors and people with special needs. Projects are financed with public and private loans and grants, including the federal low income housing tax credit and tax-exempt bonds. I plan to attend the University of Maryland for graduate work in Sociology. I have been offered a graduate assistantship to begin this spring.