About Me

For what it’s worth, here is a bit about me.  It sounds like a cross between a bad resume and an even worse personals ad, but oh well. I mean that’s sort of what the internet is all about right? That’s me to the left, it’s on the Ilkley Moor at the Cow and Calf in West Yorkshire England.  I was going to put a picture of me reading, but I sort of liked the ridiculousness of this one (a la most recent film interpretation of Pride and Prejudice).

I’m 26 years old. I spent the first 23 years of my life in North Carolina, with a few summer sojourns to Rhode Island, but when I finished undergrad at UNC-Chapel Hill (Go Heels!) with BAs in History and Anthropology I decided I decided to pursue an MA in the United Kingdom.

If you haven’t picked it up yet, my MA was in Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory. I can see people nodding their heads fully understanding my fascination with coming out and the coming of age process now. I wrote my dissertation on the Civil Partnership Act (2007) and its potential uses for acts of civil disobedience (queering the accepted norms).

After two years in the UK, I felt It was time to return to the US and chose Boston as my new home.  It’s nothing like NC (but there are a lot of us up here) and it’s a lot like England.  I spent a year of service with AmeriCorps VISTA (it’s an awesome program, check it out) and am now working full-time for an AWESOME nonprofit in the Harbor Islands.