Confident (~B2): Spanish, French, Russian, German
Conversant (~A2-B1): Portuguese, Chinese, Turkish, Italian
Quasi-Conversant (High A1): Serbian, Dutch, Arabic, Norwegian, Korean, Uzbek, Cantonese
Flailing (Low A1): Luganda, Swahili, Farsi, Catalan, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Urdu, Thai, Japanese, Malay, Albanian, Hungarian
Inconceivably Abysmal: English

• I got 3rd place in a Connecticut team ornithology competition.
• I learned how to ride a bike at age 19.
• I have a 1:44 half marathon time.
• I have bought 3 Chemexes and 4 Aeropresses in my life.
• Both my grandmother and I have been robbed once, both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
• I was possibly going to be a major role in a Connecticut community theater version of As You Like It. This sadly didn’t happen due to university.
• I did terribly in high school drawing class. Like terribly-terribly. My final project was me making a sine graph out of sticks. It took 5 minutes, and I got what I deserved.
• Apparently when I was a toddler, baby-Alex was in Italian Vogue. At that point, the bar for male model is “have hair.” If you represent Vogue, my inbox is open.
• I have a dog, she is objectively very cute.

I sometimes write short stories and essays — click here to see a small portfolio .