I am passionate about experiential learning through travel and hope to bring the joy of learning and personal development to students and travelers. This passion was sparked by working at Yellowstone National Park through the Work & Travel USA program in 2010 as an international student when I was in college. Later, in the summer of 2017-2019, I had the chance to lead study abroad programs in Australia and Fiji. These experiences built the foundation of my current research, which centers around the nexus of transformative experiences and tourist memory. I focus on their manifestation within education abroad, such as how experiences gained through education abroad contribute to the development of sustainable behavior, global citizenship, intercultural competency, identity formation, and so on. These work and research experiences also enrich my classes, and I enjoy teaching various hospitality and tourism management courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.