CURRENT MISSION

I want to make the world a better place with art and love

ABOUT ME

I love art: making it, seeing it, hearing it, otherwise experiencing it. I also like cities, justice, cooking, hospitality, DIY, singing, traveling, learning things, and community. One day, I hope to run an arts non-profit in an under-served urban neighborhood.

PHILOSOPHY

I think the most important thing in the world is to love other people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By hosting and occasionally, being a wandering traveler.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couch surfed halfway across the country when my now husband moved to Austin, TX. My informal couch surfing experience includes sleeping on many friends' futons, spare beds and couches in Baltimore, MD, a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend's couch and spare bed in San Jose, CA, and hosting friends who come to visit.

Interests

ART! (all kinds), cities, community, designing dresses, making up recipes, wine (red and white), small-craft/locally brewed beer, efficiency, organization, living in "bad neighborhoods", the arts non-profit sector, love

• arts
• singing
• acting
• diy
• dancing
• cooking
• recipes
• wine
• beer
• running
• traveling
• piano
• surfing
• art history
• history
• languages
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Juno, Inglourious Basterds, Mona Lisa Smile, everything by Baz Lurhmann, Across the Universe, Public Enemies, Stranger Than Fiction, Howl's Moving Castle, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Surf's Up, The Phantom Tollbooth, Mirror Mask

Music: Neko Case, Jakob Dylan, Annie Bethancourt, Florence+the Machine, Ages and Ages, My Brightest Diamond, tUnE-yArDs, Regina Spektor, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Imogen Heap, the Cranberries, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, the XX, Drake

Books: Let Justice Roll Down, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Ella Enchanted, The Harry Potter Septet, Song of Solomon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the view from the top of Santo Cerro in the Dominican Republic. Really the entire country is ridiculously gorgeous and worth exploring if you get a chance.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: sewing basics (machine or hand); basic Spanish; singing; acting and movement theatre techniques; basic theatre/art history; cooking and recipe invention

Learn: how to play the piano, any kind of dance, visual art techniques, languages

Share: tips on event planning; arts non-profit organizational structure and some best practices

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