I am an activist who loves people. Community building, exploring radical hospitality, youth, social justice, faith/interfaith/spirituality in all sorts of combinations is the focus of a lot of my life.

I work at a church as the office admin and children/youth/young adult person. I'm also the Ottawa chapter coordinator of the Student Christian Movement (a social justice movement of mostly-Christians www.scmcanada.org)

I love learning new things, coffee, I have a love/hate relationship with cell phones. I love conferences, because I love exploring new places, but I'm not a very good tourist.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

I really enjoyed hosting couch surfers when I lived at Faith House, an interfaith intentional community of young adults (Awesome people! On Couchsurfing here: https://www.couchsurfing.com/users/4744062/profile I lived there from 2011-2013 and I still hang out with the folks there.)

Couchsurfing is a great community, and now that I am starting to travel around again to places I don't have community in, reconnecting to Couchsurfing just made sense.

Centres d'intérêt

Awesome discussion, spoken word poetry (watching! I will not recite poetry to you), teaching children to be critical thinking activists, music, stories. I don't do it much, but I really like playing cards and boardgames.

• poetry
• cooking
• recipes
• coffee
• traveling
• music
• spoken word

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

The Labyrinth is my favourite childhood movie.

I love reading but don't really have favourite books. I will read anything Terry Pratchet. I loved Thomas King's Massey Lectures. Otherwise, I just borrow interesting things from friends' bookshelves.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Hmmmm....I don't really have any heroic or daredevil stories for you, but the Canada World Youth Nova Scotia-Indonesia 6-month exchange was pretty freaking amazing. Definitely formative.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

I've got pretty great facilitation skills, and some community organizing experience. I like to cook and bake--always looking to share recipes and learn new skills. I'm pretty crafty, but terrible with sewing. I can teach you how to weave Danish paper heart baskets. I love learning new things and sharing stories.

Pays que j'ai visités

Malaysia, Switzerland, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Canada, Indonesia