ABOUT ME

I'm from Utah, western US. I enjoy hiking, traveling, museums, cycling, guitar, and chess. I enjoy conversation, serious or light, with or without alcohol.

PHILOSOPHY

"Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world."
― Falstaff

"Facts matter, even if we do not like them."
― Noam Chomksy

Interests

Backpacking and mountains. Singing/songwriting, and open mics. Russian literature. Biology. Skiing and snowboarding. Exploring cities.

• books
• literature
• singing
• coffee
• chess
• traveling
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• skiing
• snowboarding
• biology
• teaching
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Sigur Ros, Iron and Wine, Coen Brother films, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tony Gatlif films, Hitch-22, Selfish Gene, Anna Karenina, The Plague, Master and Margarita, Dubliners, Kundera, Everything's Illuminated, Gogol, Eugene Onegin, Monty Python, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent a summer as a climate change research assistant in arctic Alaska and saw a polar bear.

Teach, Learn, Share

Guitar. Photoshop.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Italy, Myanmar, Ukraine, United States