Alisandra/Hooks

• Alisandra is a postdoctoral scholar at the UCP Department of Psychology, doing research on human behavior modeling. She's also just completed a successful defense of her dissertation in Mathematics, and rumor has it she's going to start in on a third this summer. If you attend, work at, or teach at the University, you may have met her, or at least heard of her.

• She bears a striking resemblance to an idealized version of the late Dr. Alison Beaumarys, a promising researcher in human biology and genetics who died in an auto accident about eighteen years ago. Anyone who remembers Dr. Beaumarys is likely to notice.

• When not at the University, she spends a lot of time haunting libraries, bookstores, coffee shops, and other quiet places to sit and read.

• Thanks to her unusual looks, it's quite rare for Alisandra to go out in public without being noticed -- maybe you've encountered her before, in which case it's probable you'd remember.

• If you're a practicing physician, you may have prescribed -- or refused to prescribe -- pain medication for her.

• Alisandra is fluent in Mandarin and Spanish and is happy to assist in overcoming language barriers. She is currently studying Arabic in her copious free time.

• Thanks to a somewhat sheltered childhood, Alisandra has relatively little experience of the outside world, and is therefore intensely curious about it. If you look, sound, or act in a way that she finds exotic, she might be interested enough to inquire further.

• Members of the Technocracy may know somewhat more about her, her father (retired cognitive scientist Dr. John Moorcroft) or her late mother.