CURRENT MISSION

Decommodify healthcare, overthrow capitalism.

ABOUT ME

Union organizer with Illinois healthcare workers. Born and raised in the cornfields of Indiana, now back in the midwest via England and Spain.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfed a few times in England, then fell off. Now I'm back!

Interests

Music, politics, language, and travel. On the academic side, I'm interested in new ways of doing democracy--participatory institutions, economic democratization, e-democracy. I've been on the festival scene a bit...planning to do some more.

• culture
• festivals
• beer
• drinking
• politics
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Film favorites from around the world: Network, Forrest Gump, Mine Vaganti, Amelie, The Intouchables, 3 Idiots, The King's Speech

Music: Frank Sinatra, Etta James, Bob Dylan, Ben Sollee, Iron and Wine, Capital Cities, and good world music (Lucio Dalla, Domenico Modugno, Sarkodie)

Rawls, Dahl, Lessig, and Reich on the policy side. With fiction, can't go wrong with Kurt Vonnegut.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rode on a motorbike through northern Togo and Benin. A beautiful experience.

Teach, Learn, Share

Politics, music, and and a few pints of beer.

I love sharing personal philosophies, music, language, culture, and travel experiences.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Switzerland, Togo, Turkey, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ghana, Spain, United Kingdom, United States