All Work and No Play Makes Jake a Dull Boy: Don't Ration Your Passion

Before moving to Kuwait, Jake spent the last 12 years working as a rocket scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also lectured at a graduate school for sailors in the United States Navy. He has an undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard University, where he played soccer, and a Master of Science in Biomedical Forensic Sciences from the Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to his last job, Jake researched atmospheric science at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), investigated legal cases with the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., and analyzed high-speed particle physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory.