Allyssa is a 25 year old student originally from California, USA with a passion for community, plants, art, writing, and do-it-yourself lifestyle, currently working on her BA in Humanities in Prague. She graduated high school in Abu Dhabi, UAE, studied graphic design in Hamburg, Germany for two years, lived in rural Oregon exploring permaculture, sustainable building, and botany. She's spent summers working at music festivals along the west coast and Nevada and is interested in the organization of these temporary cities creatively and intentionally created to foster a certain kind of experience. She is also interested in experiencing life in corners of the world with vastly different infrastructures from farmland communes to big cities in order to experience a variety of lifestyles in search of meaningful connections and sustainable living that is good for the soul and the earth.