I come from one of the oldest shipbuilding families in the United States. My first ancestor who lived in North America was named Edward Keeler. He was ship’s carpenter aboard the Fortune. In 1622, the Fortune was the second ship (after the Mayflower) to arrive at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My father pursued a different career, but besides him, my male ancestors appear to all have been carpenters and shipwrights going as far back as the historical record goes. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. I want to give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship.

1. I am pursuing a career in boatbuilding because it combines so many of the other trades (building, automotive, electrical, plumbing) into one. 2. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. I want to give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship. 3. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace.

As a survivor of intimate partner violence, I think often about how the larger society's sadly lax attitude towards IPV mirrors many people in the trades sadly lax attitude about workplace safety. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. This is a community scarred by all types of abuse, as well as addiction & all the other horrors ofhard living. I want to give people out there the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession, with a safer life -- always, whether they're at work or not. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship.

I come from one of the oldest shipbuilding families in the United States. My first ancestor who lived in North America was named Edward Keeler. He was ship’s carpenter aboard the Fortune. In 1622, the Fortune was the second ship (after the Mayflower) to arrive at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My father pursued a different career, but besides him, my male ancestors appear to all have been carpenters and shipwrights going as far back as the historical record goes. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. I want to give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship.

I come from one of the oldest shipbuilding families in the United States. My first ancestor who lived in North America was named Edward Keeler. He was ship’s carpenter aboard the Fortune. In 1622, the Fortune was the second ship (after the Mayflower) to arrive at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My father pursued a different career, but besides him, my male ancestors appear to all have been carpenters and shipwrights going as far back as the historical record goes. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. I want to give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship.

I come from one of the oldest shipbuilding families in the United States. My first ancestor who lived in North America was named Edward Keeler. He was ship’s carpenter aboard the Fortune. In 1622, the Fortune was the second ship (after the Mayflower) to arrive at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My father pursued a different career, but besides him, my male ancestors appear to all have been carpenters and shipwrights going as far back as the historical record goes. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. I want to give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship.

I come from one of the oldest shipbuilding families in the United States. My first ancestor who lived in North America was named Edward Keeler. He was ship’s carpenter aboard the Fortune. In 1622, the Fortune was the second ship (after the Mayflower) to arrive at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My father pursued a different career, but besides him, my male ancestors appear to all have been carpenters and shipwrights going as far back as the historical record goes. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. I want to give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship.

I come from one of the oldest shipbuilding families in the United States. My first ancestor who lived in North America was named Edward Keeler. He was ship’s carpenter aboard the Fortune. In 1622, the Fortune was the second ship (after the Mayflower) to arrive at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My father pursued a different career, but besides him, my male ancestors appear to all have been carpenters and shipwrights going as far back as the historical record goes. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. I want to give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship.

I come from one of the oldest shipbuilding families in the United States. My first ancestor who lived in North America was named Edward Keeler. He was ship’s carpenter aboard the Fortune. In 1622, the Fortune was the second ship (after the Mayflower) to arrive at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My father pursued a different career, but besides him, my male ancestors appear to all have been carpenters and shipwrights going as far back as the historical record goes. I have worked in commercial fishing and seen firsthand the disastrous results that can come as a result of hurried workmanship and deferred maintenance. The USA loses too many fishery workers, in the same waters where the Germans and Japanese don’t lose any. This is partially because the Germans and Japanese have rigorously high expectations of their shipyard workers. To me, it seems that boatbuilding & shipbuilding are the ideal places to express the pride & social responsibility of all artisans. I dream of building beautiful craft that can survive any storm & return their crew safe from heavy seas. I take a deep level of satisfaction from marine carpentry, and have decided that I want to return to my family’s historic profession. My goal is to serve the people by building beautiful and functional kinetic sculpture. I am pursuing an education in boatbuilding and naval architecture so that I can help people work & live on the water with a higher degree of safety & grace. My plan upon graduation is to start a boatyard in Grays Harbor County, WA. This is an economically depressed rural area which once had a lot of work in sawmills and canneries. It needs another large employer, and nobody else is stepping up to the plate. So I will. The plan is to use local and sustainable materials to build small workboats to support the cultivation of a larger regenerative aquaculture industry in the Harbor. This is a well-explored business model in East Asia, and Grays Harbor actually has an ideal climate for large-scale seaweed cultivation. The seaweed can be sold as soil amendments to local farmers, and used for other industrial, agricultural, and culinary purposes. This would not only create local jobs and prosperity, it would also filter pollutants & increase biodiversity within the Harbor. My career goal is not merely to build up something good for myself, but to raise up entire communities with me. Grays Harbor County is full of good, hardworking people who have never been given a chance, because of larger socioeconomic forces beyond their control. I want to give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified profession. I have big dreams, and nothing will stop me. But I will get there faster with help from this scholarship.