Hi! I'm an adventurer / designer / poet from San Francisco. In the past, I co-founded a humanitarian AI startup that works with refugee communities in the Middle East and also design and build bamboo stages for music festivals. I'm currently living in Colombia designing and building bamboo + earth tiny homes.

I love music, adventuring and making things. I have a love / hate relationship with technology (will AI take over the world?) and humanitarian system.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To explore different places, meet interesting people, understand new points of view.

I'm specifically curious about local artist, activist, and entrepreneurial communities.

Interests

• poetry
• architecture
• design
• fashion
• digital design
• cooking
• painting
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• physics
• urban exploration
• food
• quantum physics
• watercolor
• industrial design
• fire spinning
• user experience
• relationship anarchy
• bamboo architecture
• architecture and design
• digital fabrication
• relativity

Music, Movies, and Books

Music (spotify – https://open.spotify.com/user/1259246834?si=EDs3qXShTp26ucvqj5XfSg)
Frank Ocean, Honne, Tyler, the Creator, Tame Impala, Claude Debussy, Khruangbin, Kimbra, Joseph Maurice Ravel

Movies:
Cloud Atlas, Fantastic Mr Fox, Starwars, Looper, Matrix, Interstellar

Books / Writers:
The Stranger, 1984, The Kite Runner, Slaughterhouse-Five, E.e. Cummings, the alchemist

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I collaborated with the chief of a village and four entrepreneurs to build a solar charging center in Tamale, Ghana. Now four women run a solar charging center (and keep all the profits!) and 500 people have access to sustainable light and renewable energy.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I've created a small, watercolor painting for every host I've stayed with to celebrate and remember our time together. I've uploaded some examples of this on my photos!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Myanmar, Philippines, Poland, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Colombia, Estonia, Ghana, Greece, Jordan, United States