Hailing from the Bay Area, Aidan is a rising sophomore at The University of Southern California pursuing Business Administration and Journalism degrees. He is also the founder and president of a music-education nonprofit, Crescendo Connect (crescendoconnect.org). By bookpacking the Big Easy, Aidan hopes to further explore the city of New Orleans - which he fell in love with during the college admissions process, dive into Creole culture and its literary impact, further understand the history of Lousiana and its persisting influence, and most importantly laissez le bon temps rouler!