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Below the equator, I began a great journey. Imagine a place where the cloud forest dew wakes you up and a cricket chorus helps you to sleep. Lush and cool are the grounds where thousands of species call home. When I was eighteen, I found La Hesperia.

Owned and orchestrated by an Ecuadorian family as loving and warm as your own, La Hesperia Biological Station is a nature reserve where education and volunteering evolve into what sometimes feels like a holiday. My time spent working there in the summertime would shape my spiritual journey over the next twenty years.

I found that Cultural Studies and Behavioral Science interest me most. Human motivation and actuation and faith often drive my late-night philosophical conversations. From La Hesperia and Los Angeles, to Reykjavik and Tangier, experiencing the world through travel has taught me that, by understanding nature and culture, we better understand ourselves. It is this understanding, and an aptness for art and logic, that inherently informs my strength as a leader.

Seven years ago, my life took another beautiful path. My son was born with more verve and mud-puddle desire than I could have thought possible. But Los Angeles isn’t idyllic for a free-range childhood – something I grew up with at my grandparent’s farm in south Georgia. And living in the big city proved impossible to give my son the peaceful, exploratory, La Hesperia-esk world in which to grow.

All of this, plus a random shooting on our block in our ‚hip‘ LA neighborhood, led us to our meanwhile home in Oklahoma. Built in 1900 and affectionately called The Roost, our farmhouse belongs to a community commingle of Kiowa Indians and cattle ranchers. It was disassembled in 1903 and carried over the Washita River to its homestead on Rainy Mountain Street in Mountain View.‬ It would wait another one hundred and thirteen years for my son to find his wilderness there.

And so, as my son creates his own life journey, we look to the southeast for the next frontier. Following our compass toward family roots, I continue with one of the great purposes in my life: to serve my community by driving the cultural climate toward the greater good through professional knowhow and informed sensibility of a diverse world.

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