A few paragraphs in plain English about how I got here, what keeps me showing up to the work, and the things outside it that make the work possible.
[Open with something specific and concrete — not "I've always loved the environment." Try: a moment, a place, a problem that first made you pay attention. Maybe a summer spent somewhere, a class that broke something open, a particular blackout or wildfire that made the abstract suddenly real.]
[Bridge into your trajectory — what your bachelor's gave you, what work afterward taught you, what made you go back for the master's. The shape I'd aim for: not a résumé in prose, but the reasoning behind the moves.]
[What you care about right now. The questions you wake up thinking about. Why California's grid in particular, or why energy systems more broadly. Specific is better than grand — "I want to understand why DER programs underperform their targeting" lands harder than "I want to fight climate change."]
[The personal layer. What you do when you're not in front of a model — the photography, the trail running, the sourdough, the long drives, whatever it is. This is where the page earns its "earnest and personal" register. Two or three sentences. Specific details, not categories.]
[Optional close — what you're trying to do next, who you'd love to hear from, what kind of conversation you're hoping this site starts. Generous, not pleading.]