My name is Ralph.

I graduated in 2008 from The University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology . During the final three years in Boulder, I was dual-enrolled at Naropa University.

Upon graduating in 2008, I received a scholarship from the American Institute of Indian Studies to move to India, where I lived for two years as a student of classical Indian languages and literary culture. Sanskrit poetry...