Name: Ryan Black

Hometown: Hannibal, Mo.

Studies: 1st year graduate student in the School of Social Work. I earned my bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Hannibal-LaGrange College.

Employment: I have worked with Preferred Family Healthcare in Hannibal, Mo., for the last four years serving adults with severe mental illness.

Interests: Board games (I’m a dork!), Reading Sci-Fi, Biking, Racquetball, Drinking coffee at Lakota’s, Karaoke, Watching football and baseball.

Music: Darren Hayes, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Indigo Girls, Caedmon’s Call, The Killers, Eleventyseven, Flatfoot 56.

TV: Lost, 24, Journeyman, Heroes, and Chuck