Here I sit in your average urban school setting in Hayward, CA. A district who was just shy the year before of being taken over by the state and ranking at the bottom academically yet is one with a significant amount of cash in the coffers. A stark contrast to my previous post on the island of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. After spending my career abroad in places like Thailand, Kuwait, Costa Rica, Guam, Tahiti, Wales UK and more, my return to America is a wake up call on a major scale. We have so much yet we do so little. I'm not quite sure I'm adapting all that well, I continue to seek out my global partners and often succumb to the fleeting moments where I hop on a plane and go to infinity and beyond but I am trying to finish my Doctoral...alas.

With that I envision my work leading to the creation of a plan where when disaster strikes I am there on the ground re-establishing the education front lines with critical support in cooperation with NGOs, military, local, and governmental resources so that the children of this global community will not lose hope and that their generation will not miss out. I have been there, I have seen once thriving educational environments be wiped out by disaster, I've seen the faces out my windows of hope fade and education not return for years and communities all but given up.....I am compelled to change that.