I've spent more than 15 years in political and nonprofit advocacy and am dedicated to public policy and grassroots community organizing. I'm also a mom, a baritone ukulele-list, and a lover of books.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I joined Couchsurfing a couple years back when my business/podcast partner and I were traveling the country as part of our storytelling podcast, the Humanist Experience. We loved meeting new people and having new experiences in the places we traveled, and now I'm hooked on the experience. I by far prefer staying with local hosts to the isolating experience of a hotel room.

My life partner and I own a beautiful home near Wekiwa Springs State Park in Longwood, Florida. Easy access to paddleboarding, hiking, and manatees! We have lots of outdoor space in our backyard, a lovely pool, a guestroom, and we are kid-, dog-, and 420- friendly.

Interests

• wine
• beer
• politics
• reading
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• ukulele
• mutual aid
• paddleboarding
• breweries

Music, Movies, and Books

Some books:
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
Assata - Assata Shakur
Everything Sad is Untrue - Daniel Nayeri
Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat
Lucretia and the Kroons - Victor LaValle
Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones
The Murmur of Bees - Sofia Segovia
The Black Jacobins - CLR James
Anarchism and the Black Revolution - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Mutual Aid - Dean Spade
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
The Broken Earth Trilogy - NK Jemisin
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century - Jonathan Glover
Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism

Some music:
Tori Amos
Trampled By Turtles
The Crane Wives
Lord Huron
Tift Merritt
Pearl Jam
The Wailin' Jennys
Johnny Cash

Some movies:
Equilibrium
Swing Kids (the 2018 South Korean movie directed Kang Hyeong-cheol -- not the 1993 US movie by the same name, although I liked that one too)
Dreams - Ikira Kurosawa
Young Guns and Young Guns II
Midnight Cowboy
The Graduate
American Psycho

What I Can Share with Hosts

I would love to cook for you, crochet you a hat, or just share good company! Always happy to pitch in with cleaning, and can do basic maintenance/fixing things. Usually with the help of YouTube.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Spain