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ASHLEY

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About Me

I am a West Coast girl recently relocated to New York City. I am out here to get my Masters from Columbia studying Economic Botany/Conservation Biology, play and enjoy music constantly, and explore this endless city!
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My Interests

I enjoy playing music with others, practicing in small dark spaces, sailing out of the marina on beautiful days, writing incessantly, moving constantly. I collect tea and anything lime green. I have a guinea pig, Chewy, who is hopelessly addicted to hay.My research interests are in the intersection of urban and environmental spheres, and the benefits that creative solutions such as in urban forestry can have in highly impacted and low income communities. (www.urbanreleaf.org) I am also interested in the study of economic botany and ethnobotany (as in what are the roles of plants in different societies, medicinal, ritual, commodity)

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My doppleganger

Music:

James Brown, Baden Powell, Milton Nascimento, Pagode/Axe, Afrodisiaco, Bueno Vista Social Club, Tego, Tupac, Blackalicious, Badu, Stevie Wonder, Jamiroqui, Sly and the Family Stone, Prince, Dave Douglas, Bill Frissel, Chris Potter, Monk, Ellington, Louis, Miles, Freddie, Bird, Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown, Fela Kuti, Perez Prado, Wynton Marsalis, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Dorham, Muse, Radiohead, Bjork, Bluegrass, Manu Chao, Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Barrington Levy, Big Pun, Jill Scott, Beyonce, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, Christian McBride etc.

Movies:

Kind of a movie narcolept... but otherwise, Baraka, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Goonies, Dark Crystal, Labrinth, Waking Life, Central Station, Cidade de Deus, Chocolate or any other Johnny Depp

Books:

Guns germs and steel, one hundred years of solitude, dharma bums, freakanomics, the orchid theif, The Social Life of Trees, Pharmakopoeia can any recommend me some other good ones?

Heroes:

My parents- I can't even keep up with them anymore