CURRENT MISSION

Explore the world! I want to live in the most visceral, real sense. I am a poet and an activist and I want to connect with people who want to deconstruct power and privilege.

ABOUT ME

I am a late night talker, critical, feminist. I am all about making connections with people. I am passionate, soul-searching, an anti-racist. I am attempting to define justice for myself and live it. I am a poet. I protest. I'm crafty. I listen. I laugh. I envision and I create. I love to hike. I know myself. I spend a lot of time theorizing. I am a critical thinker. I stop and breathe when things get ahead of me.

I'm going to hike the entire appalachian trail one day.

I have done my share of community organizing and teaching. Will be a special education teacher in New York

I am on an all-women slam poetry team. We are pretty fucking incredible. I share everything with them.

PHILOSOPHY

"It is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive" Audre Lorde

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i have yet to surf! but i hope to!

Interests

feminism, justice, poetry, gender studies, ethnic studies, hiking, camping, climbing, teacher and hammocks, 90s music, dancing, meeting new people

• arts
• poetry
• dancing
• education
• womens rights
• crafts
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing
• teaching
• ethnic studies
• gender studies

Music, Movies, and Books

slaughterhouse 5, the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness, the bell jar and any sylvia plath, pablo neruda, rilke, the twilight of equality, me talk pretty one day and anything by david sedaris, 1984, Howard Zinn and a People's History of the United States, a visit from the goon squad, waiting for godot, the awakening, angels in america, persepolis, jasbir puar (some theory for ya)

tracy chapman, yeah yeah yeahs, ra ra riot, blue scholars, immortal technique, joni mitchell, bon iver, fleet foxes, dispatch, tegan and sara, rebel diaz, simon and garfunkel, beyonce, volcano choir, deyarmond edison, florence + the machine, alexi murdoch, cold war kids, bob marley, beirut, ben harper, jeff buckley, tilly and the wall, metric, uh huh her

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i have stayed with a host family in posadas, misiones, argentina, hiked iguazu, worked with underserved nyc students in upstate new york, worked in detention centers, visited prisons, studied at a school in suzhou, china, climbed the highest peak on the northeast in the us. i hope to travel more. i took part in the huge student protests at occupy and took the city, i got arrested blocking a precinct door protesting stop and frisk with cornel west, done transnational feminist classes in mumbai and in cape town.

Teach, Learn, Share

everyone has something to share.

activism. thoughts. philosophy. feminism. i can share some poetry. arts and crafts.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, China, India, South Africa

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States