I’m a grad student studying history and religion at Harvard trying to convince myself that academia and real education are compatible. I tend to be quiet and get a lot out of deep conversation. There’s probably no greater pleasure than meeting people different from myself in ways I couldn’t have predicted.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to start traveling around some more

Interests

• traveling
• piano
• hiking
• history
• philosophy
• romance languages
• political theory
• latin american literature

Music, Movies, and Books

Music favorites - Jazz: John Coltrane, Billie Holliday, Errol Garner; Alt Rock: The National, Big Thief, Modest Mouse; R&B: D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, SZA; Classical: Rachmaninov, Ravel, Schönberg, John Adams, Philip Glass,

Movies sampler starting with B’s - Breathless, The Badlands, Benjamin Button, The Beguiled

Writers - Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Vargas Llosa, Alejandro Zambra, Henry Adams, Tolstoy, Fernando Pessoa, David Foster Wallace, George Saunders

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once snuck into a fancy dinner to meet Rigoberta Menchú

What I Can Share with Hosts

I speak English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese and would love to speak in/about any one of those with anybody! I love to share music when there is a piano or violin available

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States