Today I live in Worcester, Mass. and am self-employed. Work regularly on anti-violence programs in prisons and run state-certified batterer intervention programs in communities like Athol and Amherst. Also work in real estate in Boston and Maine, mainly residential development both urban and along the coast.

Lived in Camden, Maine for twenty years, owned and managed award-winning weekly newspapers in Bar Harbor, Belfast and Camden. Worked both as publisher and editor. Raised three children with my first wife. Initiated the creation and served as chairman of the Midcoast Substance Abuse Council to offer professional guidance to kids and families, locally funded by 5 towns, continued for over 15 years before being absorbed by the local health care facility. My own children now live in New York, Berkeley, California and Washington DC and we have three grandchildren.

Earned a Masters of Divinity from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1998 and served as Unitarian Universalist minister of the Hubbardston First Parish church for 3 years in Central Mass. before becoming more active in prison and anti-violence work. Married Sydney Patten in 1999, the creator of "The Yellow Dress", educational play about dating violence. She is currently launching on a new educational play on depression awareness and suicide prevention among young people. We have lived in Worcester since 2001, and I have led the formation of the Central Massachusetts Men's Resource Center to empower men in relation to children, women, other men and themselves in healthy ways. We are also raising Sydney's teenager, Cassandra, who is in her senior year at Bancroft School.

Next May Public Affairs in New York will publish my first book, "My Three Fathers", a semi-autobiographical account of my upbringing.

I have known about Dr. John's global work with teens for many years now having been introduced by Board member Bunny Bullock.