Co-Founder - Director of Employer Relations
I was born and raised in Maine, USA, the state where earmuffs were invented. At age seventeen with a pair of earmuffs in one hand and a scholarship to a liberal arts college in the other I left Maine for Portland, Oregon. Four years later I graduated with a degree in comparative religious studies. Finding the job prospects for novice oracles exceedingly dim I entered the not so exciting field of college fundraising. My boss and I found out simultaneously that asking rich people for money wasn't my calling and came to the mutual conclusion that I should move to another country as soon as possible.
Six months later I found myself choosing between installing telephones in the Central African Republic and teaching English in South Korea. I selected the latter. Unfortunately, soon after I arrived the school where I was contracted to work went out of business (it wasn't my fault) and I began another new career, this one as a freelance English tutor in Seoul, South Korea. When the Korean Won took a swan dive towards parity with the Haitian Gourde in 1998 most qualified teachers sensibly fled Korea for their own countries where they could get higher paying jobs; jobs that entailed saying, "would you like fries with that?"
