CURRENT MISSION

think big thoughts for the sake of small things.

ABOUT ME

I work part-time at National Public Radio and full-time as an independent radio producer and media educator.

My goal is to do radio work abroad, particularly in Brazil, Argentina, or Uruguay. If you have any suggestions, let's get in touch!

PHILOSOPHY

live for the moment, then tell a good story.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can show you around dc.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

it works!

Interests

Teaching and learning as much about documentary radio as possible. Also: documentary film, community-based media projects, and your local radio station. Also working at improving my Spanish and learning Portuguese. Long letters. Travel.

• arts
• design
• documentaries
• electronics
• traveling
• communications
• teaching
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Currently:

Books: someday I am going to finish reading Infinite Jest...

Music: gilberto gil, beat happening, steve reich

Movies: Sherman's March, George Washington, Grizzly Man, Manda Bala

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2006 I helped a Latin-American farmworkers' union build a Spanish- and indigenous-language radio station in Woodburn, Oregon.

Teach, Learn, Share

Soundscape-in-a-can:

I was helping my students design a way to incorporate sound into an art installation celebrating the history of Columbia Heights and U Street, two neighborhoods in Washington, DC. We devised a way of building small speakers into tin cans and wiring them to hidden CD players, which had looped sounds of something in the community (e.g. the metro, a local restaurant), which they had recorded earlier. In one project I got to teach teen agers how to interview, record and edit ambient sounds, and also use a soldering iron for the construction of electronics.

I can also talk your ear off about the state of community radio in the United States.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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