CURRENT MISSION

Holistic Nutrition. Grassroots Leadership. Cultivate Self-Love.

ABOUT ME

I grew up on a tiny island called Salt Cay in the Turks & Caicos Islands, attended a Quaker high school in the D.C. area for three years, and moved to Sarasota, Florida to attend New College of Florida in 2000. Since then, Sarasota has been a homebase I've left over a dozen times for travel & adventure as well as work/education/living experiences elsewhere. I graduated from New College in 2005 with a B.A. in cultural anthropology. During college, I studied abroad in Ghana (West Africa) and Jamaica. I was an activist that focused on dismantling racism and harm-reduction education. After college, I moved back home to the Islands, where I managed a small bar and cafe on the beach. Then I got a job with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (www.maps.org) back in Sarasota. I moved out to California with MAPS in 2006 but then left MAPS to apprentice with a shaman in the Peruvian Amazon (www.windspiritcenter.com). After that, I spent a few months living nomadically in northern California and Hawai'i before moving back to Florida to be close to family. Now, I am in the professional training program at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (www.integrativenutrition.com) in New York and I work as Project Assistant for the Grassroots Leadership Initiative (www.GLIsuncoast.org) and as a Market Worker at Jessica's Organic Farm (www.jessicasorganicfarm.com). I live with good people in Gillespie Park and I love cooking, loud reggae/hiphop/soul/world music, writing, herbal medicine, biking, the beach, tea, prayer and meditation, and living in Florida. Upcoming dreams/goals = work with two-three clients this summer in my holistic health counseling practice Soul Full Nutrition (www.soulfullnutrition.com); attend the Southeast Women's Herbal Conference in October; and save $ to attend a Living Foods Educator Certification at the Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico in early 2009. I am an aspiring medicinewoman: herbalist, holistic nutritionist, and doula.

PHILOSOPHY

Love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By traveling and by welcoming visitors into my home.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None formally through this site...yet.

Interests

Holistic nutrition, local foods, organic foods, living foods, superfoods, traditional foods

Herbal medicine: cultivating & wildcrafting herbs, making medicines, spending time in the forest.

Permaculture: alligning with nature through sustainable living practices such as walking/biking instead of driving; eating, cooking, sharing and promoting locally and organically-grown foods; minimalizing consumption of goods and resources; composting; reusing goods; cultivating community

Spirit and doing the right thing

Women's wellness, liberation and empowerment

R/evolution

• writing
• education
• cooking
• organic food
• meditation
• walking
• traveling
• music
• world music
• cycling
• anthropology
• cartography
• teaching
• medicine
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Latest Beloved Books:
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Katz
Food Not Lawns by H.C. Flores
anything by Susun Weed and Rosemary Gladstar

Latest Beloved Music:
www.pandora.com
I am just now starting to get over Amy Winehouse

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Ghana, Haiti, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turks and Caicos Islands, United States