Jessica O’Neill is a writer, traveler, neon sign historian and self-proclaimed ”strange goth lady” who lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. She works for an NGO that helps to reunite trafficked children with their families, and she will begin a Masters of Cultural Heritage Studies in London in the Fall of 2013. Jessica recently spent 6 weeks at Kopan Monastery where she formally took refuge and tried not to listen to punk on her iPod.