Johns Hopkins University freshman Danielle Dorfman, 19, was selected by Coca-Cola to carry the Olympic torch for the Beijing 2008 relay in San Francisco today. Activists protesting China?s human rights record have disrupted the relay in other cities on the route, and the torch arrived Tuesday in North America under heavy security.

Dorfman, who is pursuing biomedical engineering, spoke with The Examiner before heading to San Francisco.