BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
I like to say that BC is my second home, though in truth it's been a long time since I've been back. I've spent many vacations visiting family in Whistler, and summers along the coast as a teenager when my family owned a home on beautiful Cortes Island. From the age of 13 - 17 I attended Power of Hope, an activism-through-art summer camp on Cortes Island, where I learned that I wasn't the only 13 year old with a passion for social activism and self expression. I had my first experience with a Maori Heart Circle, a Mayan Shaman Ceremony and my first encounter with whales in those formative years on the west coast, which planted the seeds of inspiration for me to become the person I am today. So though it may have been many years since I've been back, it will always be a sacred place I hold dear to me.