Curious, friendly, and open-minded. Easy-going, but really passionate about living in a way that challenges the status quo (I'm still figuring out what that looks like for me personally, but I view it more as an on-going process than an end goal).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To explore more places & meet amazing people

Interests

Sky art, people, scented candles, funky architecture, musing over the meaning of life, system reforms, and really good stories

• street art
• concerts
• cooking
• yoga
• thrifting
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• backpacking
• atheism
• volunteering
• budget travel
• wwoof
• nature
• spirituality
• activism
• museums
• veganism
• agroecology
• communal living
• alternative lifestyles
• community development
• plant based food
• supermoons

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Moby, Kraftwerk, Arctic Monkeys, The Clash, The Smiths, Anberlin, Ella Fitzgerald, Fitz and the Tantrums, Childish Gambino, Glass Animals, the xx, The Killers, Florence and the Machine, The Strokes, Pixies, John Coltrane, Flume, Son Lux, Martin Garrix, Ratatat, Franz Ferdinand, M.I.A., Modest Mouse, Grouplove, alt-j, Mutemath, Cage the Elephant, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Jidenna, Janelle Monae, Gesaffelstein, Louis Armstrong, CeU, Cake

Movies: I Am Not Your Negro, Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, Dirty Dancing Havana Nights, Pursuit of Happyness, The Prestige, Her, Corpse Bride, Juno

Books I've read (or have started reading) this year: Rules for Radicals, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Globalization and Its Discontents, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Buddhism Without Beliefs, Siddhartha, How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women, No Is Not Enough, Optimism Over Despair

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Ghana, Honduras, India, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, England, Netherlands, United States