“I think Baltimore is a very community-oriented type of city.  Whether it's between neighbors within their blocks or just neighborhoods within the city, people are very familial . . . So that type of just three degrees of separation from every single person has definitely made a big impact on how I do my work, how I do my schooling, how I just interact within the world—acknowledging that maybe one day we’ll cross paths again, whether directly or indirectly.  So I think that Baltimore is very serendipitous in that way.”