I really just love people. I decided to create a membership because I am visiting Glendale, Arizona in the middle of March for an interview for graduate school, and I would love to get to know the city and some cool people in it while I'm there, especially because it could potentially be a place I call home for the next few years! Aside from that, I think the idea of getting to know folks and their journeys seems incredibly positive and exciting, especially in the context of such an open and inviting community. I really believe in the interconnectedness of everything, and this seems like a really incredible platform to meet others and learn about all the different ways a life can be lived.

I love all music! Lately, I've been listening to lots of techno, ambient, lofi music, but I can really bump to any and everything. Minus a few country songs, but even that genre can get my hips swinging in the right context. I've loved dystopias and science fiction books since I was a kid, and I think they've instilled a bit of an apocalyptic mentality in me. Some of my favorite authors are Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale, but also lots some of her lesser known ones like The Heart Goes Last and The Year of the Flood). I've been reading a really cool book called How to Change Your Mind which is about psychedelic research and the nature of consciousness. I'm really open to all media, though! If it exists and it'll teach me something, I will probably enjoy it.