Excerpts from visa petition letters I wrote on behalf of different Japanese scientists seeking green cards to continue working in the US. These letters synthesized information from original sources: technical and scientific documents, resumes, the applicants' own publications, and letters of recommendations

I coach students applying to college in how to go about writing their Personal Statement, how to distill the essence of who they are and who they want to become.

Here are two very different versions of my own personal statement, as an adult, not applying to college, but thinking about the forces that have shaped me in who I am and who I still want to become.