"Mit allen Wassern gewaschen," (“washed by many waters”) is a phrase that can be used to illustrate an impression that has been made on many who meet me—that of a person who favours a complex multifaceted existence over an existence focused within a specific area.

Perhaps this characteristic of mine results from the diversity of opportunities lent to me or from the multitude of pathways my interests have led me to meander down. Perhaps it arose as a response to the needs that presented themselves around me in the most crucial stages of my development, with which I was beckoned to assist. Alternately, one could say that I was doomed to wager the undercurrents that spring forth inside of a mixed household, where a German mother and an Indian father reside — a home in which I could be found trying to wrap my head around the nuanced paradigms present in western and eastern philosophical and behavioural frameworks.

Whether it is aiding refugees at Moria Camp in Lesvos or processing their legal papers with World Relief Chicago, teaching on a remote island or assisting salons who work to dignify the existence of prostitutes in the heart of Chicago and Tel Aviv, all this seeming chaos is woven together by the threads of social work, human development and by expressions of social justice and service.