EDUCATION: BA - Philosophy MA - Interdisciplinary Creative Arts MSE - Speech Communications PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Visual Arts - graphic artist, illustrator, portrait artist Performing Arts - Singer, actor, theatre director, writer Education - Teacher, coach, artist-in-residence Media - Radio and television producer and host INTERESTS: U.S. politics, religion/atheism, racial and gender equality, post-capitalist theory, education reform, peace movement, climate change, labor rights, film/arts criticism, etc. Guilty pleasures: Film Noir, cowboy songs, and the NFL.