Hi — I'm Jules.

I'm seventeen, in eleventh grade at Hillbrook School in Los Gatos, and I spend most of my time digging — in the ground, and in archives.

That's meant a fourth-century Roman fortress in Spain, plantation sites in Virginia, and Jewish cemeteries in Poland and Lithuania, where I cleaned headstones by hand until the inscriptions came back out from under the moss.

The thread is the same everywhere. Somebody's name was written down once, and then the record of it fell apart. I like putting it back.