I graduated from a small liberal arts college with a degree that left me wonderfully fulfilled but woefully underemployed. After galavanting around the globe a few times, first with the Peace Corps and then with an international medical nonprofit leading surgical team around Latin America, I now work for a hospital in DC, looking for innovations that can improve health care for all.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Looking to meet cool people. Hotel rooms are so impersonal!

Interests

Talking to people, finding my way around new cities, growing beards, fending for myself, and cooking mango curry.

Still working on looking less like an idiot, misquoting the news, and accidentally burning popcorn.

• arts
• cooking
• news

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I worked with the White House and USAID to conceptualize and rapidly prototype improvements to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the recent (and ongoing) Ebola outbreak in Western Africa.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm pretty easy going--You have something you want to teach? I'm a willing pupil!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I speak Spanish pretty well--happy to help you practice your language skills!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Guatemala, United States