I'm an art curator, and I love hiking, canoeing, kayaking, camping, swimming, rollerblading, running, biking, yoga, reading, cooking, baking, going to museums and art galleries, foreign films, and fiction literature.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to travel, and I work for a nonprofit museum, so my budget is minimal!

Interests

• literature
• theater
• cooking
• baking
• yoga
• running
• jazz
• hiking
• canoeing
• kayaking
• skiing
• art history
• art
• indie music
• art museums
• indie films
• afrobeats

Music, Movies, and Books

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Singing songs on an overnight sleeper train through India, scuba diving off the Zanzibar coast, costume party on a cruise down the Nile River, biking uphill through a rainstorm in Ireland, playing cards with a taxi driver while stuck in a mudslide in Bolivia, swimming in a remote lake in the Boundary Waters after a long off-trail hike, camping in the woods, cooking a delicious meal with fresh garden ingredients for my best friends, annual family snow relays during the holidays, good book and cup of strong hot chocolate in front of a fireplace...some of my favorite memories in life so far, and hopefully, many more to share with the right person!

I'm an ENTP - we had to take the Myers-Briggs test at a past job - lol!
I'm an art curator and I currently work as Education Director & Curator of a museum - I love my job! I love connecting with people and engaging communities through visual culture. When I'm not working, I love to run, hike, rollerblade, ski, teach myself new songs on the guitar, read, draw, paint, cook, go to art museums, check out my artist friends' openings and performances, listen to music, and do yoga.
yoga, swimming, drawing, writing, baking, cartwheels
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Favorite books: "Americanah" by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, "Tortilla Flat" by John Steinbeck, "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway, "A Grain of Wheat" by Ngugi wa Thinog'o, "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, "Roots" by Alex Haley, anything Whitman, Thoreau, or Emerson, and I have a large collection of contemporary African literature and contemporary Native literature that I really love

Favorite movies: Legends of the Fall, Pan's Labyrinth, Life is Beautiful, Inception, Into the Wild, The Artist, Midnight's Children, Great Expectations, The Hobbit, The Sting, anything Kubrick

Favorite bands: Sylvan Esso, Smalltown DJs, Bob Dylan, Sea Wolf, Bon Iver, Shovels & Rope, Arturo Sandoval, jazz, indie folk, indie pop, blues, electro house

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Singing songs on an overnight sleeper train through India, scuba diving off the Zanzibar coast, costume party on a cruise down the Nile River, biking uphill through a rainstorm in Ireland, playing cards with a taxi driver while stuck in a mudslide in Bolivia, swimming in a remote lake in the Boundary Waters after a long off-trail hike...among others.

Teach, Learn, Share

Lots of historical and art historical knowledge on NYC

What I Can Share with Hosts

Tips for saving $ on seeing tourist attractions in NYC, cool places to hang out, great places to hike near NYC that are accessible via train, cheap places to eat

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Germany, Honduras, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Saint Martin (French part), Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States