CURRENT MISSION

Make the world a better place.

ABOUT ME

None of my friends would go as far as to call me an extrovert but I am very much a people-person. I love getting to know people - what they are interested in, where they have been, who they have been, what they think they are going to do next.

I like a good times, walks, talks, histories, museums, bars, bookstores, love stories and life stories.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For the love of travel and people.

Interests

Humanity and the humanities are my playgrounds. Once upon a time I thought I was an activist. Now I think I want to write. I'd like to incorporate both in my adult life.

• humanities
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Modern and Postmodern.

Books: David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Jeanette Winterson, Roberto Bolano, Junot Diaz and other authors you might read in a trendy undergraduate lit program.

Music: 'Indie,' 'Electronic,' 'Classical,' 'Neo-classical.'

Films: 'Critically acclaimed,' meaning like Fight Club or American Beauty, but also Up, and like Amour.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I ran the fossil fuel divestment campaign at my college, College of the Atlantic, up in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Teach, Learn, Share

What's the dif between this question and the next one?

What I Can Share with Hosts

Aphorisms, poetry, something the Buddha said once, the crazy story of how I've gotten to wherever I was headed. An easy going company; good conversation; occasionally mushy, goo-prone progressive on left humanist, feminist sentiments; open ears; flexible traveler.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Croatia, France, Poland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States