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Riders
Jennifer Seibly
 Jennifer is a 31 yr old lawyer from San Francisco, California.
Why is Jennifer Participating?
2003 began, for me, as the year I was to travel the world doing Habitat for Humanity trips along the way. I resigned from the law firm for which I was working to make a journey I had dreamed of for years - to rediscover my relationship with God and find a new career direction. Unfortunately, I returned to the States after having an accident abroad and feeling the impact of the anti-American sentiment around the globe during the tensions over the, at the time, potential war with Iraq.
When I arrived back to the States, I traveled back to Washington, DC to visit my best friend from college and ponder what I would do with the year I had planned to travel the globe. During this visit I ventured back to the Georgetown University Campus where I completed my undergraduate degree to find myself in the midst of Jesuit Heritage Week attending a lecture by Paul Begala regarding his balancing of politics and religion, a subject I had long struggled with as an undergraduate and today—10 years later. I left his lecture feeling it time to take a stand and make a choice of religious faith, which would become a focus during the year I was to travel abroad. Just prior to the start of Spring 2003, I began my journey to become a Catholic with the support of my closest friends from Georgetown and those at St Vincent’s in San Francisco. The journey to become a Catholic has been especially rewarding, as I have been struggling with whether to resume my travels in a year of intense international conflict and international health crisis. One day in early April, I received the April/May 2003 Habitat World magazine in the mail and came across the page that briefly mentioned Brake the Cycle. After researching it on the Internet for just an hour, I knew I wanted to be one of the core riders. This journey to spread awareness of the plight of impoverished Americans was a journey I wanted to experience first-hand during a time when our country is intently focused on relieving the poor, homeless and oppressed abroad from their misery. Further, such an experience will be an amazing part of my journey to join the Catholic Church.
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