ABOUT ME

Hello! I am a traveling graduate student studying social justice.

I have a background in education and outdoor leadership. I have lived and worked in Illinois, Colorado, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts, and California, as well as abroad in Italy, India, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia and Fiji. I love reading, writing, cycling, hiking, movies, teaching and traveling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is a terrific opportunity to meet people, exchange culture, and make friendships at a convenient price!

Interests

My passions include traveling, backpacking, mountains, oceans, biking, music, guitar, sports, reading, animals, gardening/farming, and meeting people!

• animals
• culture
• writing
• education
• walking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• backpacking
• camping
• sports
• teaching
• law
• medicine
• nursing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Some of my favorites:

Movies- Casablanca, Cinema Paradiso, It's a Wonderful Life, The Great Dictator, The Truman Show

Music- Bob Dylan, Jack Johnson, The National, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Bon Iver, Andrew Bird

Books- Siddhartha, The Old Man and the Sea, The Alchemist, Catcher in the Rye, The Little Prince, The Razor's Edge

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One night while I was working at a summer camp in Colorado, I had to walk thru a dark thunder storm to get a camper's medicine for the next morning from the nurse. As I walked passed the pig pen, a family of three bears jumped out a few feet in front of me, looked at me, and ran away. I went the other way, into a large open field. Then, a large female goat starting stalking me, and before I knew what was happening, the goat was charging at me full speed. To my happy surprise, the goat was not attacking me, but trying to use me as a shield against the bears. For the next thirty minutes, I could not get the goat to leave my side. I was walking around in circles, in a thunderstorm, with a goat, with a family of bears probably watching the entire thing. True Story.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, England, Ethiopia, France, India, Italy, Nepal, Tanzania, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United States