Gage (Trinity ’28) is from Austin, Texas and is majoring in neuroscience with minors in art history and chemistry. Outside of Vertices, he studies optogenetics in the Mooney neurobiology lab and eating disorders in the Duke Center for Eating Disorders Lab. He also organizes events for Duke's National Alliance on Mental Illness as its Executive Publicity Officer. In his free time, he enjoys thrifting at local stores, collecting vinyl, ranking cafes, and writing art descriptions and visual analyses for incarcerated artists' works through the local Impartial non-profit.