About

I was born in downtown Omaha about 2.5 months after Nixon resigned and eventually graduated from high school across the Missouri River in Counciltucky. I enrolled in the University of South Dakota in 1993 on a track scholarship, dropping out in 1997 to join the United States Navy as a photojournalist.

I spent the next 12 years bouncing around the world from Italy to Hawaii to Greece to the Indian Ocean to Iraq and to Italy again. There were many amazing stops in between. Along the way, I encountered a miracle named Christian, my son, and left the Navy.

I went back to college to study linguistics and literature at Iowa State University, graduating with a BA in English in 2013. My path led me to become a Disability Income Fellow (AHIP), and I now specialize in helping people ferry across the troubled waters of disabilities and towards gainful occupations, or benefits, that enable them to continue realizing their full human potentials.