Asli Omur is a self-proclaimed IKEA junkie and lingo-phile with a penchant for slang and shoe shopping. She has mastered four languages and traveled 12 countries and 20 U.S states. She is the daughter of a natural blonde Latina of Spanish, Greek and French descent, who works as a radiologist in Florida. Her mother comes from a family of artists and journalists. Her father is a green-eyed Turkish businessman and owner of a multi-national maritime insurance and salvage company in Istanbul. Her fathers’ grandparents were repatriated to Turkey from Sremska Mitrovica, Croatia and Trikalion, Greece at the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Asli’s great-grandmothers passed away only recently and shared with her a plethora of family histories. She believes cleanliness is the greatest virtue. She can also cut a rug and cook up a mean stuffed pepper when need be! Asli lives in Seattle with her fiancé and is completing her Bachelors in journalism this December at the University of Washington. Asli has been a correspondent and intern for the Seattle Weekly, The Tampa Tribune, LightMillennium.org, TurkishGreekSynergy.net and the European Weekly among others. She wants to use journalism as a sounding board for culture, race and sexuality in America and beyond