Friendly, considerate, clean, laid back, easy to talk to, good-hearted, and love to make breakfast -- don't I sound like a perfect CS guest?!

I grew up in the quaint little Dutch town of Pella, IA which contains the largest working windmill in the U.S. and an annual Tulip Festival. Good roots and great pastries. If you ask, I'll bring you some!

I'm kind of an artsy-soul, so I studied painting and art therapy in school. Then I did loads of volunteer work all over the globe. Then I decided to get my graduate degree in Arts Management in Edinburgh, Scotland. Now, I live in Edinburgh with my partner and our one year old son. I work for a start up that provides software for care homes while my partner finishes up his PhD.

Interests

Art, treehouses, yoga, hiking, reading, photography, faith, stargazing, wanderlust, things that come in miniature sizes, cooking with people.

• arts
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• breakfast
• yoga
• reading
• traveling
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: 90s for nostalgia purposes. Anything I can dance to. I know it's cliche to say that I listen to a little bit of everything, but it's true!

Movies: Garden State, Moonrise Kingdom, Easy A, Catch Me If You Can, Bridesmaids, Short Term 12, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Midnight in Paris, Little Miss Sunshine, The Dark Knight, City of God, Juno, 500 Days of Summer, I Love You Man, generally anything with Steve Martin, Tom Hanks or Bill Murray.

Books: Americanah, A Man's Search For Meaning, To Kill a Mockinbird, LOTR, Harry Potter, Silence, The Circle, Letters to my Daughter, Night, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Naked Now, anything by Flannery O'Connor.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I had the privelege of spending a summer in rural Uganda doing art therapy with women and children who were formerly abducted by the LRA and/or affected by the war.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Haiti, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Scotland, United States