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Personal Summary

Dylan never graduated high school. Instead, when his school in California refused to accept the credits from a Swedish high school he attended for the first semester of his junior year, he took the California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE) to begin attending MiraCosta Community College at the age of sixteen. Following three years of surveying topics and majors ranging from theoretical physics and business administration to audio engineering and songwriting, he unenrolled and moved to Mammoth Lakes, CA, where he spent two and a half years exploring the land and his life in the Eastern Sierras. Dylan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.S. in Chemical Biology and minor in History, but before returning to classes, he spent about a year in New Zealand living out of a converted mini(camper)van adventuring throughout the country with his surfboard and guitar. Dylan also worked as a Pathways Legal Assistant Intern at the Social Security Administration’s Office of Hearings Operations (OHO) in Oakland, CA, from commencement until his move to Missoula on August 16^th, 2023. Moving in support of his partner’s career in biology, Dylan found work through AmeriCorps at ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú Legal Services Association's Missoula office where he conducted intake, worked reception, and coordinated the Western ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú Bar Association’s (WMBA) Pro Bono program at the Blewett School of Law until joining the Mansfield Center in February, 2024.

Education

Domestic

• B.S. Chemical Biology; minor in Early Modern European History, University of California, Berkeley, CA (2023)
• A.A. with Honors (emphasis in science and mathematics), MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA (2020)

International

• Foreign exchange student, Bromangymnasiet, Hudiksvall, SE
• Two-week work experience, European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, CH

Professional Experience

International Experience

Dylan is fortunate enough to have visited many countries including: Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, Fiji, New Zealand (1-year working holiday), the United Kingdom, France (7 weeks visiting friends and family), Sweden (6-month foreign exchange), Norway, and the Netherlands. He also recently visited Puerto Rico and Chile in the fall of 2024.

Honors / Awards

Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition (June, 2020) awarded by Rep. Mike Levin of California's 49th congressional disctrict for work done in service of the college and community as a member of MiraCosta College's Associated Student Government.

Hobbies

In his free time, Dylan plays guitar, sings, sails and surfs (when possible), longboards around town, hikes and plays with his two dogs, builds computers, plays board games, works on various home improvement projects, and is always eager to learn something new.

Currently (whenever there is time), he is working on configuring a home media server, soldering new pickups into his electric guitar, and working to restore his late grandfather's pocket knife that he recently acquired.