SELF PORTRAIT

Jana Crain

■ DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: Sept. 6, 1970, Monticello

■ MY FAVORITE MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN STAR CITY: Cheering and baton twirling under Friday night lights. Playing spades under candlelight when the lights went out. Being part of a nurturing church and community. Eating home-cooked meals every day of the week.

■ THE BEST ADVICE I’VE EVER RECEIVED: Enjoy the journey; don’t wait on the destination to be happy. My mom tells me this at least twice a year.

■ IN HIGH SCHOOL I WAS VOTED: Homecoming Queen

■ MY CHILDHOOD NICKNAME WAS: Jan Jan (from my Dad)

■ I’M PROUDEST OF: Most recently starting the Lori Partridge Jeremiah 29:11 Scholarship at Ouachita Baptist University (my alma mater and hers). Lori’s life was taken too soon by breast cancer. Her spirit and legacy live on.

■ A BOOK I RECENTLY READ AND LIKED: The Count of Monte Cristo.

■ I COULD NOT DO WITHOUT: Café Borrone (in Menlo Park down the road from my office, my main source of meals and the best chai tea latte)

■ MY HAPPY PLACE IS: Kona, Hawaii

■ I AM TOLD I LOOK LIKE: Jessica Chastain (once)

■ I WAS STAR-STRUCK WHEN I MET: Matt Damon at an airport decades ago. He signed my physics book. (I was studying for a test as always.)

■ IN MY CAR I LIKE TO LISTEN TO: NPR and KRTY (the only country station in the Bay Area).

■ THE ONE WORD TO SUM ME UP: Conscientious