CURRENT MISSION

Figuring it out

ABOUT ME

Adventure-seeker living in Brooklyn. Make my money as an arts administrator. Passions include performance art, post-modern dance, food coops, linguistic anthropology, traveling, speaking French, showing off Brooklyn to visitors.

PHILOSOPHY

If I have food, water, and shelter and am in good health then life is good.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfed once and hosted once. Hoping to do more of both. Seems like a great way to meet people, learn more about people and places, save money, and have great adventures. I am all about cultural exchange aspect of CS.

In Portland ME for one day/night. Looking for a place to crash.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed with Kat and Nate.

Interests

Artisanal food. Language. Movement. Thinking about the function of art in society and exploring infrastructure models that support art-making. Birkenstocks. Film. Music. Backpacking. Making lists. Romance. Large bodies of water. Kale.

• arts
• performing arts
• dancing
• dining
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• backpacking
• anthropology

Music, Movies, and Books

Indie label artists. Drake. Putomayo albums. Opera.

Three Cups of Tea. Kite Runner. A Fine Balance. Cosmopolitanism. Freakonomics. Tipping Point. Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris.

Fav public radio programs: This American Life and Radiolab.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Figuring out how to get from a village outside of Kumasi in Ghana to the University guest house where I was staying in the middle of night by trotro--the closest thing to a public transportation system. That was fun. It's the little things that count.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach. Learn. Share. I like that. We'll learn from each other, no doubt, when we meet. Let's leave the learning there.

Countries I’ve Visited

Benin, Canada, France, Ghana, India, Morocco, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States