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Overview

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  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning French
  • 28, Male
  • Member since 2016
  • Yale Herb Scarf Fellow in Development Economics
  • Yale University BA
  • From Darien, CT, USA
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

Wanderer and Yale economic fellow living in one of the hippest areas of DC, rowing mornings, fighting climate change at work, voraciously consuming literature, stargazing on roofs, pondering the good life

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I believe in Trust without Knowing

Having taken solo pilgrimage across Europe with but a backpack and water pump, having fallen in with a group of blind runners in Taiwan, having taken an American road trip with a stranger, I believe the feck of living is on the fringe, through others' eyes, and most importantly, lacking context.
There's an enlightened state to movement, home everywhere and nowhere, and I'd like to aid others in that lifestyle (as well as occasional help in practising it)

Music, Movies, and Books

Great Expectations, Invisible Man, Faerie Queene, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Picture of Dorian Gray, Peter and Wendy, Representative Men, Paradise Lost

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

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What I Can Share with Hosts

Charm

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Switzerland, Taiwan, United States

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