Grew up in Queens NYC, spent my youth writing graffiti on walls and getting into trouble. Then I went off to a military college in Georgia. During my time in military college I began to awaken to the multifaceted crises confronting human civilization. I began to awaken first to the political reality, followed by a more broad awakening encompassing the physical and spiritual nature of it all. After fighting my way out of the military I returned to New York where I found a job at an organic vegetable farm. While at the vegetable farm I began learning about ecology and permaculture. After working at the vegetable farm I apprenticed under Andrew Faust at his permaculture homestead in Ellenville NY. Then I worked as a farm educator at an urban farm in Queens. After that I managed a CSA farm in Rockland county with 2 other friends. After that myself and several other friends launched a permaculture project in Pomona NY. The project is called the Eastern Light Project and it is a community effort to protect land in Rockland county from unsustainable development by proactively teaching the community permaculture and methods of sustainable development.