San Diego, CA
UC Berkeley
Economics, Fall 2022
Jonah spend the first years of his life in New York playing soccer and lacrosse. He also loved to
snowboard in his leisure time. Next was baseball and football but in high school he turned to
rowing which was by far the hardest sport he had done. The family moved to San Diego in
chose not to row on the college team but enjoyed running in the hills around Berkeley and riding
his bike in the canyons in San Diego. After his first semester at Cal he returned home for the
holidays. On December 20, 2017 while working out with former teammates at the San Diego
Rowing Club he dove off a seawall, hit his head on the bottom and broke his neck at the C4-6
level resulting in quadriplegia. He spent eight months in rehabilitation at Craig Hospital where
he met SWM scholarship recipients Austin Brotman and Andrew Ouellette. He returned home
to San Diego where he took a few courses at Mira Costa CC before returning to Cal to complete
his degree.