About Kaden: I've been married since 2025, I have a sweet dog named Andie, and I love Oklahoma. My hometown may be small, but it has a home-cooking restaurant owned and run by my parents that has awesome food (especially if you're gluten-free)!

Hometown: Mounds, OK

High School: Homeschooled

College: Oklahoma State University:

BS Mechanical Engineering Technology

MS Industrial Engineering and Management

Hobbies: Reading, tennis, board games, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Favorite Music: Needtobreathe and Switchfoot, and both lead singers' solo projects (Wilder Woods and Jon Foreman).

Favorite Book:           

Non-fiction: Surprised by Joy, by C.S. Lewis

Fiction: The Well of Ascension, by Brandon Sanderson

Something not everyone knows about you: I can ride a unicycle!

Favorite Quote: "When people feel certain frustrations, they tend to think that merely making changes will fix everything. But random changes produce random results." - W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Work

Best Advice for College Students: Start with why. If you know why you do something, it's way easier to do it right and do it well. So do your research, both on yourself and where you’re going!

Favorite OSU Memory: Learning to play intramural flag football with some of my best college friends freshman year, on The Soggy Boys team (it was raining when we first practiced)!

Favorite Website: I like to create D&D characters on Dungeon Master's Vault.