MY BIOGRAPHY

I was born in the American Southwest in the 1970s, and I grew up in (mostly in the 1980s and 1990s) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia as an Aramco Expat. 

Every year, my family and I would travel to different parts of the United States (often traveling to Fargo, ND and the Minnesota lakes region in the summer) as well as several foreign nations (i.e. Canada, China, Hong Kong, Egypt, Greece, Germany, Holland, U.K., etc.).

The result of these experiences is that I developed a deep-rooted patriotic love of the United States of America and a dynamic, diverse and multicultural worldview.

After 9th grade, I attended a private boarding school in Colorado for two years. While living in Colorado I became involved with the Amnesty International as well as State human rights groups, such as the then newly formed Colorado Progressive Coalition (which I think no longer exists), Colorado AIDS Project and Colorado PFLAG.

Boarding school was also where I learned to ride a horse and where I read quite a few different books on History, Human Rights, Law, Philosophy & Sociology.  

For my senior year, I transferred to an American (DoD run) High School located in the Gulf Island nation of Bahrain.  A long causeway connected the Bahrani people to Saudi Arabia and so I lived with my parents and commuted back and forth on a daily basis. I graduated from high school and stayed in Saudi Arabia for a year, before moving to Minnesota and pursuing a triple undergraduate degree at Moorhead State University.

While pursuing a triple undergraduate degree, I resided in the Fargo/Moorhead metropolitan area.

I currently reside in the rural Minnesota lakes region.

While living in the Minnesota Lakes region, I formed two human rights organizations, Midwest Voters For Equal Rights and the Prairie Equality Initiative.

I have several ways that real people can contact me.