Amanda Lindhout

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

You have a responsibility to move your dreams forward, no matter what.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.