Jackie and I write about our adventures and mishaps in Switzerland on SwissWatching. You can see pictures of Switzerland and our travels on Flickr. Yes, I do speak French, in a functional and very non-academic sort of way.

My dad is a civil-rights lawyer in Chicago (online at www.kenlaw.com). My mom is a professor of psychology at Argosy University, Chicago, and has a private practice in Evanston (online at the Center for Multimodal Treatment). While all three of us Flaxman children participated in the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics during high school and studied mathematics as undergraduates, we’ve all taken (slightly) different paths since then. My brother Abraham (Abie) is a computer scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington (his website). My brother Joel is a lawyer who works as a law clerk for a federal judge in Chicago.

At Evanston Township High School I took Chem/Phys (if you browse that page carefully, you might find my Intel paper), played in the band, and was on the math team.

In college, I was on the board of the Harvard College Democrats and Harvard Hillel and I chaired the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance. I played clarinet in RecKlez, the Harvard Klezmer Band. RecKlez’s 2008 CD, Sketches of Freylekhland is online:

I’m not playing much clarinet these days (hoping to pick it back up when I’m back in the States), but I have been learning Yiddish.

Links

• Jean Yang (her blog) went to Harvard with me. She’s a PhD student at MIT
• Rachel Kamins is a freelance editor specializing in scholarly writing and my sister-in-law
• Abie’s blog: Healthy Algorithms
• Enrico Costanza, a former colleague in the Media and Design Lab
• Photos by Jason Schnier: marhaban!
• Jose Olivarez’s poetry: The Other Side Of The River

Did I forget you? Let me know!