Brock Emerson

Brock grew up in the foot hills of the Adirondack Mountains. He enjoyed 18 wonderful years there before moving to the big city of New York. While there he studied Mechanical Engineering at Manhattan College. New York was good to Brock. He learned a lot about himself and a lot about the world. He worked as a stage hand and technical director for most of his time in NYC and thought he would become and entertainment engineer. This dream was realized the summer of his junior year when he started working in the engineering office of Hudson Scenic Studio, a Broadway scene shop. Though constantly amazed that he was working on Broadway, he started to question how to best put his engineering degree to use. With the war on Iraq looming in the wings, international policy discussions became the water cooler discussions with the multi-national students and faculty of the ME department. The need of a more peaceful tomorrow lead Brock to the Peace Corps website one snowy February day, and from the Peace Corps to the MI program. Something clicked when he found that he could apply his engineering degree in the developing world, and he knew that this was his next step. In late June of 2004 he will depart for sunny Mauritania. He enjoys theater on both the creative and the participatory aspects. Professionally he hopes to work with international development with a focus on clean energy and water programs. He works and prays for peace (we need all the help we can get).

Brock’s live journal is located at: www.livejournal.com/users/brockafrica

and photos are located at: http://photos.yahoo.com/brockafrica