CURRENT MISSION

Enjoying a month of funemployment before heading back to graduate school

ABOUT ME

I have been lucky enough to call San Francisco and the Bay Area home for the past 8 years, but it's time for some change. I'm relocating to Pittsburgh for graduate school in the fall of 2014, and will be backpacking Italy in the summer.

I've worked previously in urban policy and finance, and am going back to study public policy with an emphasis in urban policy. I am in love with cities and the collision of ideas, people, and culture that they represent, and hope to find some way to turn that passion into a career.

In my spare time, I am a voracious reader, a huge soccer fan, and an aspiring hiker. I am also a sponge for useless trivia - you want me on your pub quiz team!

PHILOSOPHY

Life is too short to waste it on doing things you don't love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

To be honest, I've never been lucky enough to get matched with a CouchSurfing host, but I'm really looking forward to it!

Interests

History, urban policy, current events and politics, soul and jazz music, football (Arsenal), basketball (Dallas Mavericks)

• culture
• pub crawls
• politics
• trivia
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• backpacking
• basketball
• soccer
• history
• public policy

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Films: Blade Runner, Milk, Casablanca, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Top Gun, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Dirty Harry, Bullitt, The Magnificent Seven, 3:10 to Yuma, the Borune Trilogy, The Lives of Others, Goodbye Lenin, Layer Cake, Brick, The Constant Gardener, Atonement, Children of Men, The 25th Hour

Music: Soul, jazz, conscious hip hop, indie rock

Literature: I have a soft spot for 20th Century American authors, most notably Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Mailer

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States