I love the outdoors and long-distance running and cherish home-cooked dinners with friends. Trying everyday to learn how we can better communicate across differences and heal fissures in our society. Hoping to work as a teacher or community organizer. I'll be on the move until September 2017, but I'm excited to start hosting then.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Currently on a yearlong adventure to explore history, memory, and social justice in communities around the world. Trying to find people to share stories with, to immerse myself in the fabric of everyday life in places far from home, and to learn more about how we remember the past and think about the future.

Interests

• concerts
• tango
• education
• cooking
• yoga
• politics
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• backpacking
• camping
• trail running
• history
• sociology
• spirituality
• farming

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Gospel of Solentiname (Ernesto Cardenal)
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paolo Freire)
Hope in the Dark (Rebecca Solnit)
Strength to Love (Martin Luther King Jr)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)

Music: lots and lots, acoustic/folk (Tallest Man on Earth, Fleet Foxes, Wood Brothers, Lyle Lovett, Valerie June, Sufjan Stevens, Nickel Creek, Joni Mitchell), blues/soul (Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Van Morrison, Son Little, Lianne La Havas) hip hop (Anderson Paak, Kendrick Lamar, BJ the Chicago Kid, Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper), Latin American (Buena Vista Social Club, Silvio Rodriguez, Sui Generis, Onda Vaga, Rodrigo Amarante, Perotá Chingò), rock (My Morning Jacket, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Little Feat), indie-electronic (Lucius, Sylvan Esso, Tuneyards)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent a week in the monasteries of Mt. Athos in Greece

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Cambodia, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, England, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Scotland, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Ecuador, United States