Trudy J Ohnsorg

Trudy Ohnsorg embarked on her life-long love of travel when she bought a one-way ticket to Japan after college to take a job teaching English. She has since traveled to many parts of the world, discovering Airbnb during a month in Costa Rica in 2012. Trudy became an Airbnb host when she left her "safe government job with the salary and benefits" and joined a consultancy that focuses on strategic planning for nonprofits.

According to Trudy, "Sharing your home is not just transactional - it can be transformational. You re-learn trust when you allow strangers to stay in your home. I came to realize that the vast majority of people are good and kind. Guests may arrive as strangers, but they often leave as friends. I now have standing invitations to visit truly remarkable people - my former guests - all around the world."

Trudy's career has balanced a focus on health and health policy (she was Minnesota's Director for Interagency Health Reform) with a love of nature and beauty (she was an award-winning landscape designer who taught a college senior-level landscape design course for a dozen years). She lives in a little purple house in Saint Paul, Minnesota.