Meet Your Greens!

JOSEPH is a vegan, a lawyer, and an over-sleeper who sometimes likes to provoke you by saying inappropriate things and really appreciates the opportunity to cook and share food with others.

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hi. i'm RACHAEL. i love imagining possibilities (and impossibilities), and slowly making them come true. sometimes i feel like a 40-year old woman, and other times like a 7-year old ballerina. wise and silly. realistic and totally uninformed. i'll work on the last one. i believe us humans have endless capacity for love, trust and courage. i wonder how to tap into these capacities so that justice, equality and community may emerge. these are the things i think about when i'm in the shower. i go wild for red wine, sweet potatoes, free hugs, guerilla art, live music, painting bodies, alternative economic systems, the turning of fall, running in the sun, sitting in silence, falling in love with strangers, falling in love with brian, dancing in the morning, soul-sisters, intentional community, growing your own food, and the co-operative movement. i guess that's how i ended up here, at the green vine co-op. pretty cool, ey?

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CAROLYN

One of my favorite things to reflect on is the idea of how things happen as a result of strange and unique circumstances and experiences. I never thought I would end up in our nation's capital pursuing my passions of teaching, art, and of course, ultimate frisbee but here I am, amidst a wonderful group of individuals with different experiences, passions, and ambitions. Amazingly, we all came into this house as strangers yet we share so many things in common. From Peace Corps, art, frisbee, to compassion for others, human rights, and the environment, I feel so fortunate to be a part of a movement for positive change. I am now a member of the DC Teaching Fellows and will be serving as an "agent for change" in one of many high-need schools teaching art while pursuing my Masters in Education (and finding time to juggle friends, frisbee, and homework).

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Hello, my name is BRIAN J. Ward and I was born in Madison, Wisconsin, raised in Annapolis, Maryland and found myself in Baltimore. Now I am in Washington, DC with these other crazy greenies at The Green Vine Co-op. I am a national grassroots organizer for a non-profit called Friends of the World Food Program, who supports the United Nations World Food Program in their efforts in end global hunger; I know it’s a big task. I am a left wing political activist, I love learning new things and debating political issues. I play bass and guitar, I have played in bands in the past and I am currently starting a new one…stay tuned. I love conversations about taboo topics such as political and religion. My love for sports is the manliest thing I do. So far the house is great, as we are just getting started. We are learning a lot from each other and I am happy to be here.


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As in a dream, ALYSSA found the incomplete co-op after a long February in her suburban hometown of streets named all with the same letter, and often after plants. Post-college and waiting for the pieces to fall, she moved to D.C. in pursuit of a collective (city) life—one filled with adventurers, activists and people of the passionate scrappy sort. A strong believer in the connectedness of people, the earth and that which we don’t understand, Alyssa is finding her place among her interests in yoga, veganism, activism and mixed media. She talks with her hands, hums incessantly, and believes tea (or a good story) can solve any ailment. She gets nervous when people stand too close to the metro, or buildings’ edges and can’t sleep without one foot exposed from underneath the covers.

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Between cooking, gardening, school, her "real" job and slinging drinks at night, MAE is far too tired to write a witty or clever bio. Reading, getting her hands dirty, sparkly things and vegetables all make her favorites list. Guilty pleasures include country music, hulu.com (who needs cable?) and chocolate peanut butter cookies. She wishes the following things would die: harem pants/skinny jeans, bean-killing landscapers, unnecessary complications.

She also thinks writing in the third person is terribly awkward.

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DANIEL is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Paraguay for four years. He is looking forward to the future.