Founder of Current Initiatives; Speaker & Writer; Pastor & Chaplain; Wedding Officiant; Host of the Boldly Going Podcast; Pro Surfer in another timeline.

I am a Florida native who has worked in the non-profit sector for more than 20 years. I am a public speaker, published writer, non-profit entrepreneur, missionary, wedding officiant and part-time barista. After participating in several overseas missions trips, I decided to focus my efforts on local U.S. cities by bringing hope to neighborhoods through tangible projects.

In 2008, I founded Current Initiatives, a Tampa-based organization with the mission of educating communities on social initiatives while mobilizing them to bring about change. Current’s most prevalent program, the Laundry Project, assists lower-income individuals and families by covering all expenses and providing necessary items required to wash clothes and linens. Affordable Christmas is a seasonal initiative giving needy families and parents the opportunity to purchase holiday gifts for their children at a tenth of the original cost. Current’s third initiative, Hopes for Homes, provides free repairs and renovations to homes owned by working class families.

My work has been featured on NBC Nightly News, Newsmax, People Magazine’s “Heroes Among Us” and the nationally-syndicated morning talk show, Daytime, as well as in the Tampa Bay Times, and on numerous television stations spanning multiple local news markets.

I am a TEDx Speaker, Synapse Summit Panelist, guest lecturer for the University of South Florida’s College of Social Work, University of Tampa’s Social Entrepreneurship Program, Eckerd College’s Social Entrepreneurship Program, and have been a Co-Host of Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) IdeaLab. I have been honored by the Southern Early Childhood Association (SECA) with the 2015 Friend of Children Award as well as a Community Hero Award by the Tampa Bay Lightning.

In my dream world, I live on the beach in Southern California and am a pro surfer. In real life, I live in the city of Tampa where I never actually surf.

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