Will Anderson
Will Anderson
Lead singer of the pop-rock group Parachute, the group known for songs like "She is Love."
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth5 May 1986
CitySacramento, CA
islands bird luck
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
not-good-enough improvement catalyst
An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.
two interesting people
There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.
successful mind intellectual
Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.
real way problem
I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.
children school elementary-school
Elementary school children are very impressionable
describe felt success words
Words can't describe what we felt with the success we had with her, and now with this tragedy.
best cook dinner girls hiking learn nights trails
My best friends are just girls who go to school. They're not in the industry, and we have dinner nights and learn how to cook together and go on hiking trails and the beach.
bees girls high kids starting
I always think of young Hollywood as its own little high school. There are the girls who have been working for a while that are kind of like the Queen Bees and the new kids at 'school' just starting out.
New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way.
academic huge middle total
I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.
influenced inspired number people
There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.
great life time view
It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life.
hope ya
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.