CURRENT MISSION

To learn to make a good sourdough.

ABOUT ME

I live and work in Brooklyn, where I spend my days at an affordable housing organization crafting the words needed to reallocate funds from the rich to give to the poor. In my spare time, I can often be found in a local coffeeshop with pen and paper in hand, putting my thoughts to paper over the best local coffee in the neighborhood.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've couchsurfed with a myriad of interesting people around the world and hosted a number myself.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted in Pittsburgh and NYC. Surfed in Philadelphia, San Jose, San Francisco, Mexico City, NYC, Washington, DC, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Guadalajara...

Interests

Writing; park-hunting; photography; editing; fixing the world; introspection; knowing my neighbors; reusing and recycling; book-binding; folks-observing; music; films; good food; better conversation; foosball; civic engagement; combining opposing forms of media in new and unsettling ways.

• writing
• books
• photography
• coffee
• movies
• music
• communications
• travel
• social justice
• cities

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: 13 Ghosts; The Avett Brothers; Bad Religion; Booker T. and the MGs; John Cale; Carolina Chocolate Drops; Tracy Chapman; Leonard Cohen; Depeche Mode; Michael Franti; The Indigo Girls; Otis Redding; Paul Simon; Nina Simone; Spearhead; Talking Heads; Tortoise; Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra; The Velvet Underground; Weezer; etc.

Movies: A Christmas Story; Being John Malkovich; Brazil; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Cool Hand Luke; Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Fargo; Flag Wars; Funky Forest; The Hobbit; Hot Fuzz; Imitation of Life; Persepolis; Requiem for a Dream; The Royal Tenenbaums; Shaun of the Dead; The Taste of Tea; Urbanized; Waking Ned Devine; Waltz With Bashir; Waterworld; etc.

Books: A Search for Solitude: The Journals of Thomas Merton; Animal Farm; Birds; Bone Black; The Boy Who Ate Around; The Butter Battle Book; Creature Tech; Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man; Epileptic; Fun Home; The Giver; Half of an Elephant; The House on Mango Street; Information for Foreigners; The Jungle; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Les Miserables; Lord of the Flies; The Lord of the Rings; The Loved One; Maus I and II; My Wicked Wicked Ways; Native Son; New Movement in Cities; Night; Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions; The Preservationist; Radical Priorities; The Sea; Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson; Sophie's World; Stone Soup; Sula; Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Untouchable; where we stand: class matters; Without a Map; Woman Hollering Creek; etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was in fourth grade, Arnold Schwarzenegger came to my elementary school for Superfit week and I had opportunity to show the Terminator live and in person exactly how little my puny upper-arm muscles cared about chin-ups.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I would love to cook a meal for you. Soup is my specialty.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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