About

I am just an average person. I have worked as a self employed carpenter for about 15 years and have also served at ImpactLives–a non profit organization which primary focus is on transforming local and global communities one life at a time– nearly 5 years.
I have had opportunities to travel around the world and experience different cultures and environments and have worked with volunteers doing relief and development work and humanitarian endeavors here in the US and abroad. In summary, I have traveled to around 12 countries to date.
Over the past five years, I have realized many things about the way we as a society approach human need in the world that I don’t think are beneficial and in many cases, are outright contradictory to solving the problems of human need across the globe.

I got an idea about a year ago that seemed a bit crazy… Bike across america!
Some say why? I say why not?
I believe in setting goals outside my box of comfort… outside my idea of possible.
As someone who has not been a “biker”, I wanted to do something outside my realm of experience and comfort zone. This Idea fit.

I am planning to ride my bike from New Orleans to the border of Canada to raise awareness of Human Need in the world such as hunger, poverty, human trafficking and slavery, and also to start a conversation about how we can work toward real and long term sustainable transformation for people affected by these issues both here in the US and abroad.

I am not an expert on these topics but I have some real life experiences and insights that do bring relevance to addressing the topic of Human Need.

Please, join me in on this journey and help support my work. For donations go to http://www.impactlives.org/donate.html?view=donation and select the right campaign. Or you could mail your checks to:

ImpactLives
6985 Oxford Street
St. Louis Park, MN 55426