Things I Love:
- Nature! Especially if it involves hiking or swimming on a warm, sunny day. My perfect day is definitely in the mountains or at the beach.
- Making people laugh. It’s one of the best parts of being alive. If I’m not joking around, something has gone terribly wrong.
- Movies that are so bad they’re good. Bride of Chucky. Zombeavers. Santa Jaws. If it’s objectively ridiculous, I’ve seen it and cackled the ENTIRE time.
- The sheer flow state of a long walk. My friends make fun of me because I’m always the one to say, “It’s only a 2-hour round-trip walk to the restaurant. We don’t even need to drive.” I have so much excess energy that I gotta be walked 3 times a day like the beloved family corgi.
- Listening to music. I cannot remember the last time I got through an entire day WITHOUT Spotify. I love music, especially: classic rock, girly pop, soul/R&B, disco, cumbia, reggaeton, Latin folk, mariachi, and salsa.
Causes That Matter to Me: Environmental Justice, Promoting Literacy, Women’s Liberation, Anti-racism, LGBTQ Rights, Support for the Arts, Veganism/Animal Rights, and more.
Least Surprising Fun Fact of All Time: I’m really into astrology, and I have both a Leo stellium and a Taurus stellium. If you don’t speak Gen Z, that means absolutely nothing to you. If you do speak Gen Z, you don’t even need to Google the (positive and negative) stereotypes of each of those signs to know that they clock me.
Actually Surprising Fun Fact: I have never eaten an animal in my life. My parents have been together for 40 years and went vegetarian at the start of their relationship, then raised my brothers and me vegetarian from birth.
4 years ago, I switched over to being vegan, giving up dairy and eggs in protest of the violence that factory farms inflict on dairy cows and chickens.
“But how do you get protein?” Tempeh, black beans, tofu, red beans, chickpeas, soyrizo, and lentils are all huge staples in my diet. I have the hair, bloodwork, and Trader Joe’s receipts to back up my high protein claims.
