Kyla attends school at Livermore High School in Livermore, and has lived in the SF Bay Area her whole life. To her, the best parts about San Francisco are Pier 39, the de Young museum of fine art and the Giants. Her ultimate passion is writing, and she dreams of going to Stanford University or John Hopkins University and becoming an English professor. She is currently a contributing writer for The Mindful Word in addition to The Culture Trip. You can find Kyla’s published articles from The Mindful Word at http://www.themindfulword.org/author/kyla-giffin/, and can also find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylagiffin and on Google Plus at https://plus.google.com/u/0/102209384388560437952/about.