I was born into a funky middle class family in the central valley of California. 24 years later I’m still here but a lot has changed since my days running around barefoot in the street. I wasn’t interested in school in kindergarten, elementary school, jr high or high school. I preferred to watch tv, play video games, guitar and skate board. After graduating high school my first couple of jobs were on farms which is fitting as I spent much of my child hood on my grandpas cherry orchard. I ignored this part of my life for the past 3 years while I sllllllowly got the hang of college. I finally found my own path to academic success by taking advantage of on campus tutoring, studying like a mad man, and maintaining a “fuck it i gotta do it” additute. In school and became one of the highest scorers in my science and math classes and smashed the stereotype that a sloppy disorganized black man can’t excel in science. Now I tutor math and physics at the math lab where I got the help I needed. This is a huge part of my life. After taking a big break from farms I got offered a job on one of the biggest indoor warehouse cannabis grows in the Sacramento area. I took the job (still got straight A’s) and I was exposed to the frontier of indoor agriculture. This is when the farmer and engineer in me started to get in cahoots and dream up a plan. I now strive to be give communities access to cheap, clean, sustainable food and help save the planet by building controlled growing environments. I get so excited thinking about this I know that even if it isn’t my final destination its in a good direction for me to go in. On the day to day you can catch me playing pool, jamming on the porch, drinking hot tea, playing chess, chasing my dog around, watching cartoons and having abstract often silly conversations. I can be shy, talkative ,self conscious, rude, generous, boring, sleepy, compulsive but always human.
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