PLEASE NOTE: No hookup requests, booty calls, explorations of physical intimacy, putting the moves on, or romantic advances of any kind. I do not want to find myself meeting you under the impression you will respect and host me only to find out that you're expecting something (sex) from me. Do not accept my couch request or send me one if you're trying to hookup.

CURRENT MISSION

To give what I can, and get the most out of life.

ABOUT ME

My friends have described me as peaceful, selfless, supportive, non-judgemental, intelligent, generous, passionate, and compassionate.

I love to travel and do work that is meaningful to me. I mostly work with victims, nonprofits, media, and experts to do activism involving children's rights and domestic violence. I also have international nonprofit experience working with Heifer International in Chengdu, China and writing articles to raise awareness about environmental issues. Looking at grad schools now.

I love hiking, fire staff (spinning fire in a performance way), going to events and lectures, meeting new friends, being a good friend, etc. I'm considering trying my hand at stand-up comedy someday. I'd love to get good at kayaking.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Mostly meting up with people. I have participated in the couchsurfing club in Chengdu, China. I also used to co-host surfers in Reno with my sister Elizabeth Loudon, but most of them were accepted through her account. I love couch surfers!

Interests

Nonprofit work, journalism, justice, ethnobotany, Taoism

I blog at Huffington Post.

• writing
• performing arts
• dining
• clubbing
• traveling
• blogging
• hiking
• kayaking
• communications
• journalism
• hitchhiking
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've been to 25 countries in the past 3 years (since summer 2014), and I'm moving o Budapest to study Public Policy at Central European University 2017-2018.

Food Columnist in China, Burning Man, Burning Boots Italy, a month in Iraq, Hitchhiking in Xinjiang, making a traditional wheat dessert overnight with neighbors in Kyrgyzstan, finding apples at their birthplace in the mountains of Almaty, Kazakhstan.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Travel info, conversation, writing and editing help, Chinese language practice, fire staff.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Indonesia, Palestine, United States