CURRENT MISSION

learning, sharing

ABOUT ME

I am an attorney! I do deportation defense. I want to end militarized borders and I like to envision a world without incarceration of any kind. Social justice work is very important to me. I also like to dance.

PHILOSOPHY

"To understand just one life, you must first swallow the world."
--Salman Rushdie

"We are all born naked, and the rest is drag."
--RuPaul

Interests

Picnics, fields, biking, art, live music, film, hiking, dancing, traveling (naturally), casual frisbee-playing, beaches, experiments in cooking, writing bad poetry, reading good poetry, reading in general, meeting new people, finding new places, learning languages, radical thought, radical politics, social justice, rainbows, glitter.

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• cycling
• hiking
• languages
• law
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I'm not very hip, I can tell you that right now.
Movies: Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), Persepholis.
Books: Catch-22, contemporary poetry, Samantha Power

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Skinny dipping in Antarctica was pretty cool. And by that I literally mean cold.

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I make: songs on the ukulele, all kinds of curry.

Learning: French, Spanish, more musical skills, yoga, anti-racist organizing skills

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Guatemala, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

Antarctica, Belgium, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, South Africa, Spain, United States

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