interests
When not bicycle-touring, i enjoy studying mushrooms and related topics. I like to make freegan soups, bicycle to farmers markets or volunteer directly at permaculture farms, and I also nurture forest biodiversity and then enjoy seeing how the ecosystem responds. I participate in critical mass and mutual aid, enjoy vegan potluck dinners, dumpster post-consumer goods, take personal statistics on foraging and waste to strategize more effective targets, cliff jump, play in river whirlpools, learn to live more sustainably (and sanely), engage in lively debates, mine the past for learning experiences, dream of living in a forested geodesic dome with a porch, farm sanctuary, prepare for the next (current) revolution, wear salvaged hand-sewn apparel, volunteer at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, compost, garden, cover corporate advertising logos with relevant personal messages, critique government.
I practice a vegan diet because I do not want human and non human animals' to suffer from torture and inhumane treatment.
what.i.do
- 2005-Present: Volunteer at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary
- 2007-Present: Active member and walk leader of the Connecticut Westchester Mycological Society(COMA)
- 2007-Present: Volunteer at Sun One Organic Farm
- 2008 Fall: Ran under the Green Party for State Senate
- 2008 Spring: Woodstock Farm Animal Santuary Good Egg Award
- 2006 Fall: Chosen as a Semi Finalist in Film Your Issue Contest for this movie on eggs.
- 2006 Fall: Received Humane Society of the United States Award for Excellence in Student Advocacy
- 2005 Fall: Outstanding Senior Award(highest GPA) in Computer Engineering at the University of CT
I have also assisted and given talks at various events and spaces including: the 2009 Feminism Autonomy Divirsity and Gender Expression Fest, the 2009 7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies (I coled "The Politics of Diet and Conceptualizing Life" panel on the topic of Foraging Resistance), the Northern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, the Northeastern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, the 2008 Climate Confluence, Freegan.info, and Wetland-Preserve.
Favorite and recently-read books/authors: Audre Lorde, Bell Hooks, Collapse, Derrick Jensen, Emma Goldman, An Unnatural Order, The Shock Doctrine, Hunger, Animal Liberation; Carbon Trading:A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power, How Nonviolence Protects the State, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage