CURRENT MISSION

Attaining the perfect travel combination of volunteering, learning, and relaxing

ABOUT ME

I’m sociable but mellow, self-sufficient, independent - no babysitting needed!

PHILOSOPHY

Putting it out there as a challenge to each of us, myself included, but If there's a specific cause, or movement, or issue that's so monumentally important to you, don't you owe it to yourself to dedicate a few hours of your time each week to ensure your vision happens? Whatever you find important in your life, not just talk about it, but be about it?

I guess my thought assumes that your issue will be a socially progressive one that moves the country forward for a greater good, but your cause could be one of family, self gain, or even esoteric religious enlightenment. But whatever you believe in, whatever situations you think could be improved globally or in the your immediate surroundings, maybe your own life will be improved if you invest in those issues.

Interests

Instead of just using the extra time for vacationing and partying, I’d like to take the opportunity to try and learn about people and cultures. Right now I'm focused on motorcycle riding, school, and learning to take lots of good pictures!

• partying
• traveling
• investing
• communications
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies -Rabbit Proof Fence, City of God, Infernal Affairs/ The Departed, The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Music - MF Doom to Melody Chardot, Mos Def and MC Solaar, Sly & Robbie to Queen Ifrica, Nina Simone to Chaka Khan and Erykah Badu, Black Keys to Foo Fighters, Blur and AC/DC, Nas, Julieta Venegas to Laleh and La Mala Rodriguez, Solange to Sleigh Bells and Flying Lotus to Four Tet, Bo Diddley to J-Dilla, Jay-Z, Handsome Boy Modeling School and The Avalanches….. too many artists to name, is this a trick question?

Books - Guns Germs and Steel, Purple Hibiscus, American Psycho, Things Fall Apart, 3 Cups of Tea and now more than ever Catch-22

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I hate heights so it's amazing that I jump out of planes on a regular basis without crying like a three year-old, but the most exciting thing I've done is a two way tie: took a picture with Obama in Ebony Magazine's studio just one week after he was elected = wound up on the media platform three stories up in the middle of Times Square on New Year’s 2000 (I know there’s a picture of that out there somewhere…)

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Haiti, India, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Afghanistan, United States

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