I went to Parsons School of Design and then I began my career as a designer.

But in my first 25 years of career, I had a bunch of different experiences.

And that's not to say I ever went on to become a brilliant, world class neuropsychologist.

So, a funny thing happened on my way to becoming a brilliant, world class neuropsychologist I had a baby.

And that has to do with me because in 1994, I packed a few things into a backpack and headed off for a year of travel in the middle of my university career.

That feeling was the trigger for me to actually change my career from being a software engineer to become a science writer so that I could partake in the joy of science, and also the joy of communicating it to others.

What I m most proud of is that my family can look back after my career is over and realize that I was able to make a difference on and off the basketball court.

Six years before that, I was starting my career as an opera singer in Europe, when I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension also known as PH.

The contrast is remarkable. In the past 17 months, the Morales government has been confronted with two protest marches by indigenous peoples defending their right to be consulted on the construction of a highway that will join the cities of Cochabamba and Trinidad.