Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Reporter-Editor-Broadcaster
Location	Summit, New Jersey, United States
Introduction	World citizen and registered Independent: Loner, rebel, Gandhian, expatriate-in-waiting, award-winning journalist, do-gooder to a fault. About AF&O/The Armchair Activist/Grateful Dread Public Radio: This project has existed in some form since 1996, from the old Grateful Dread BBS to the early incarnations of Facts and Opinions (freespeech.org), FANDO Log (blogger), the Armchair Activist and armchair-activism GLBT (the first domain I purchased), with GDPR throughout. My vocation (passion) has many goals -- self-expression, information, and inspiration among them -- but its paramount aims are to encourage people to make a better, cleaner, fairer world and to foster world peace. Lofty aims, but we have to start somewhere. Consider this my small bit for the effort. "Let mine be a voice for peace." - Dan Fogelberg
Interests	activism, pacifism, religion, music, theater, film
Favorite movies	The World According to Garp, The Indian Runner, The Lord of the Rings (all three films), An American in Paris, A Fish Called Wanda, Life of Brian, anything with Hugh Jackman
Favorite music	Grateful Dead, Bob Marley and the Wailers, White Stripes, Mahler, Joni Mitchell, Al Stewart, Dan Fogelberg, Steely Dan, Joan Armatrading, k.d. lang, Frank Zappa, Mozart, Zep, jambands, progressive rock, reggae, folk, bluegrass, old punk
Favorite books	The Lord of the Rings, Wuthering Heights, The Well of Loneliness, The Grapes of Wrath, Big Lies, Dude Where's My Country?, Stranger in a Strange Land, Gandhi-An Autobiography, Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha),

In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?

I just feel better wearing a suit in the pool.