Resident bios
We range in ages from fortysomething to 79.
MB: 70 she/her, teacher, writer, musician
YD: From Senegal, designer and maker of modern West African influenced clothing.
Jon: works with rural villages in the Dominican Republic to develop innovative participatory, environmentally positive solutions to chronic poverty and marginalization. He spends about three months a year at the Ashby Avenue house.
TL: 60s, she/they – Nonprofit manager working to provide access to financial resources that help people overcome hardships and pursue their dreams. Yoga enthusiast, farmers market aficionado, writer (memoir/creative nonfiction), radical therapy practitioner, mother of two young adult children.
Ownership
The house once belonged to Jon’s parents. Current ownership is shared between Jon and his three sons.
Owner bios:
Jon: (see above)
Dan: an ecologist who lives in upstate NY; he visits the house approximately once a year.
Dmitri: an human-centered digital health researcher and lives in Berlin, Germany.
Jason: lives in Boston, MA