Who is calirob?

It’s more than a catchy digital moniker.

My family immigrated to the United States from Scotland shortly after I was born so my father could accelerate his medical research at the National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C.  He is a world-renowned molecular neurologist who has spent his life researching various brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s, and migraine headaches. My mother is an English teacher and super-mum to three rowdy boys. They had to adapt to an entirely new culture and navigate putting their kids into an unfamiliar school system. For two highly accomplished academics, this was hard and uncomfortable. But for us kids, these schools and the culture immediately became the norm. It’s where we learned how to speak like Americans and made our first friends. 

Calirob is a persona that reflects 40 years of lived experience and insights that have shaped who I am and the person I aspire to become. I’ve always been fascinated by people and consider myself a student of culture and creativity. It’s the human connections, relationships, and unexpected stories that unfold that inspire me. My passion for storytelling stems from being exposed to the world through a variety of cultural perspectives and the incredible relationships that I have formed along the way.