Jillian arrived in Southeast Asia in search of adventure. She was hungry for experiences beyond the sphere of academics, where she excelled at Ivy League Universities, earning distinction as a Rhodes Scholar Finalist, graduating second in her college class, Phi Beta Kappa. She now holds Master's Degrees in Asian Studies and Development Economics. A Princeton University scholarship took her to Jakarta, where she chanced upon the opportunity to model. And as they say, "the rest is history." A well-known model in Asia, voted the top covergirl in Indonesia, she works fervently and also authors a travel/popculture column for several Asian magazines. She is now based in New York.