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Bio

A high frequency pixie, a heady mix of euphoria and pandemonium. Literally translated, my name means "the reincarnate of the beautiful keeper of the forest." I recently graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in political theory and spent the past year studying and writing about the potential uses of Web 2.0 technology for improving democratic expression. Now, I work as a writer, editorial assistant, and organizer for Reality Sandwich/Evolver and am honing my ability to harness the power of the written word to inspire others to live more responsibly and gracefully, with an expanded appreciation for our interconnectedness with nature and one another. Language is a titillating medium and words are meant to be played with.

I am also the founder and CEO of The Magic Hookah Lounge, a self-sustaining and ever-evolving creative attitude, which occasionally takes physical form, and manifests into a tangible place to create, experience and share magic in its infinite varieties. In physical reality, it is a mobile hookah lounge and public art space that materializes at outdoor and indoor events and festivals throughout the United States. Check out our Facebook Group for more on the nature of our business, upcoming events, booking information, and future developments: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101861362886

Skills and talents

writing, editing, academic research, web 2.0 consulting, djing, poi and firespinnning, hooping, taking children on cultural adventures, photography and photoshop, amateur music production, sewing/costume design

Interests

circus and fire performance, clairvoyants and outlaws of all shapes and sizes, curiosity, dancing around all crazy-like, DJing, epicuriosity, good literature, making you dance around all crazy-like, New Media, people who know secret things, people who like to play., political consciousness, psychedelic trance, Public Art, Raw food, synaesthesia, the angles of refraction established among shining surfaces variously inclined, Traveling, writing

What I'm Reading

Guattari's The Three Ecologies, Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

What I'm Listening To

Balkan Beat Box, Amon Tobin, Psymettrix, Gorillaz, Lali Puna

Movies I've Seen Recently

Dead Man, The Point, Let The Right One In

Websites I'm Into

wikileaks, wordie, the magic hookah lounge

Education

High school

East Grand Rapids High School (Michigan) / Cape Eleuthera Island School (Bahamas)

College

Wesleyan University (BA in Political Theory)