Thinking and building projects at a big scale started for me at the University of Colorado-Boulder where I built the distinguished speakers board in the student body government. Way back in 2004 I worked with Joe Neguse on this project who was the student body president at that time, today he is a House of Representative member from Colorado. We worked to build one of the premier conferences about HIV/AIDS in Colorado featuring Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu, Talib Kweli, and the painter Joshua Mays.