Evy (rhymes with heavy) has been wanting to live with children in community for as long as they can remember. They write about communal living on their blog, sing barbershop with Fog City Harmonia, and volunteer with the Bay Area Childcare Collective. They love writing, lists, creating amateur art, challenging binaries, IFS therapy, spreadsheets, hugs, talking about feelings, and being very silly.
Ping hails from Canada and joined The Village after many years of living in co-ops in the East Bay, including the Berkeley Student Cooperative system. He is often excited about democracy, humanitarian relief, nonviolent communication, music theory, paragliding, crow intelligence, interactive art, public transportation, spreadsheets, languages, and contact improv.
Sam loves film photography, baseball, politics, things that go fast, and reading legal documents. He spends his time biking, in the dark room, and raising his twin sons who have lived at the Village for almost half their lives.
Andrew (6yo) loves cute things and being cute. He's into small critters (mice, chipmunks, Pikachu) and has a collection of tiny objects. His yellow belt karate moves and top notch Mario impression are sure to entertain you. You can sometimes find him reading past his bedtime.
Arthur (6yo) loves sharks, obscure Pokemon (Gengar), and things that grow. You can find him munching on plants in GGP — he knows which are edible, or at least we hope he does. His exaggerated Italian chef accent is the best of its kind.
Ana loves walks with friends in rain or shine, reading, biking with Ilio in tow despite the humiliation of trying to make it up a hill, brewing ginger-based concoctions, and adventures with friends.
Ilio (5yo) is secretly a teenage mutant ninja turtle. Don’t tell anyone.
Cristina is a bibliophile with a passion for understanding the brain, other humans and what it means to live a good life. It's her first time at the rodeo of community living and is excited to learn from the experience. Her favorite things include making others laugh, long hugs, and hanging out in the Golden Gate Park.
Paloma loves living with others and dreams of building a sustainable, abolitionist homestead with her friends someday. She's happiest when laying in the sun, dancing to live music, making pottery, and protesting for a better world <3
Grace likes to be outside, on foot and on wheels, exploring new paths and neighborhoods (biking, running, skating). She loves cooking and sharing food creations with others. A bicoastal transplant (SoCal > Baltimore & NYC > Bay Area), along with a couple rounds of extended travel abroad, Grace feels very grateful to settle into an intentional community within the glorious city of San Francisco.
Laura is a therapist, nature and animal lover, and relationship nerd who likes pretty things. She values nuance, curiosity, playfulness, and growth. She loves helping housemates through conflict and hates spreadsheets.
Stefani is new to the co-op world (and SF!) and is so excited to be part of such a warm, loving community with KIDS too! By day (and sometimes night), she’s an AI researcher who dreams of the future. She’s happiest striking a good balance between lighthearted fun and deep life chats.
Ms. Magpie (”Maggie”) - the self-proclaimed chillest member of the Village loves naps, anything with two or four legs - especially if they have fur - pillow fights with the children, and being a good girl. She loves living in community and having the option to say hi to friendly people and sleep the day away in Grant’s room.
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Francois enjoys many interests including extended periods of time in nature, long silent meditation retreats (and meditating daily), working with sacred medicine, playing guitar, and cuddling Maggie. Francois has lived in SF for over a decade, loves living in community and is an advocate of taking daily naps and frequent rest.
Yevgeny (yev-GHEH-knee) likes to wear many metaphorical hats in addition to physical ones. Some of his favorites include: Physicist, engineer, Irish dancer, cyclist, psychodynamic & somatic counselor, cuddler, astronomer, nonmonogamous partner, vegan, pilot, musician, photographer, and dad-joke-no-one-asked-for vending machine. When he’s not chin-deep in equations or bringing transistors to life in his mysterious mad science dungeon, he looks for ways to deepen connections between humans. He feels happiest gathering people together to co-create and is genetically unable to go more than 5 minutes without saying something silly. If you ever hear baroque music coming out the back of a bike, wave and say hello!