20 Questions with our Co-Founders, Jomi and Hadley. Watch the video Q&A here, or read their full answers below!

ITS A QUARANTINE Q&A!

Full name: Hadley Wood Pierce
From: Boston
Currently: Dublin
Age at first Africa visit: 12 years old
Favorite book: tie: A Man Called Ove & This is How It Always Is
Quarantine hobbies: taking and editing photos & hanging with my BFLF(best four legged friend) George
Next new African country you want to visit: Ethiopia
Favorite animal: elephants & hyenas--both have matriarchies. Gotta love groups that are run by the women, am I right?!?
Afraid of: spiders and sunburns
A word you can never spell: 'license'
Favorite Bush Book: The Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens
Favorite African country: it's a tie between Namibia & Rwanda
A texture that you hate: velvet
Any broken bones?: ankle, two pinky toes, and a middle finger
Scars?: one on my forehead where my sister "accidentally" hit me in the head with a bucket as a child and I had to get my forehead stapled back together. TBH apparently I walked basically directly into her swinging bucket.
Super power of choice: to be able to aparate or to be able to speak any language
Hidden dream: to write a book
Siblings: 3 sisters (I’m #3 of the 4)
First book you read: Henry and Mudge
# of days would you last in solitary confinement: TBD

Full name: Johan Moritz (Jomi) Krobb
From: born in Germany, raised in Dublin, Ireland
Age at first Africa visit: 2 years old!
Favorite book: many, but Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is a classic & firm favourite
Favorite Bush Book: The Sheltering Desert by Henno Martin
Hidden dream: to walk the Pacific Crest or Appalachian Trail
Favorite African country: Namibia
Pet peeve: when people are sloppy and untidy for no reason
Favorite animal: probably leopard...photogenic, elusive, mysterious, elegant. Snow leopard is high on the list but I haven't seen one yet.
A smell that you love: currently, when people fire up their BBQs on a warm day--reminds me of normality, childhood and summer coming
A texture that you hate: styrofoam, good lord....
Broken bones: not that I know of....
Next new African country you want to visit: Chad
Scars: chin and knee from falling off my bike age 7
Bad habit: constantly twiddling with my beard
Weird hidden hobbies: watching pro poker tournaments. And birding (which isn't weird in my profession but is to everyone else)
Random fear: crocodiles, they're so gnarly and ancient and there's just no off-switch
Siblings: one sister named Karli. She's 3 years younger and working as a speech therapist in Singapore. She's also an Africa aficionado
First book you remember reading: Astrid Lindgren Die Bruder Lowenherz (Swedish children's stories)
# of days you would last in solitary confinement: 30 seconds