CURRENT MISSION

Live, Laugh, Love, Learn, and Explore. . .and look good while I do it all!

ABOUT ME

womanist/feminist/black feminist, passionate, motivator, courageous, inspiring, ostentatious, bold,nurturing

PHILOSOPHY

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Gautama Buddha

-won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
How can we sing the songs of the LORD
while in a foreign land?
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand;
come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Scholar

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None. . .yet!

Interests

Travel, Singing, Dancing, Cooking, Love, Laughter, Fun, Research, Learning, Growing, Spirituality, poetry, theatre, deep conversations, exercise

• poetry
• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• exercise
• modeling
• traveling
• study abroad
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Estelle, Beyonce, Coldplay, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Kendrick Lamar, Miguel, Justin Timberlake

Books: Half of a Yellow Sun/ The Thing Around Your Neck/ Breath, Eyes, Memory/ Eat, Pray, Love/ Their Eyes Were Watching God/ This is How You Lose Her/ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao/ Beloved

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Duke University, “Duke-in-Ghana” Study Abroad Program (Summer 2010)
-Conducted ethnographic research at the Anani Memorial International School in order to determine if the school’s multilingual curriculum preserved the cultural identities of the students. Found that a sense of community cohesiveness existed prior to the children entering school, and that the multilingual curriculum served to enhance this reality.

Countries I’ve Visited

Ghana, Nigeria

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States