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After high school, I attended UW-Stevens Point and earned my degree in Physical Education. After college I spent a couple of years working at an Outdoor Leadership Center leading groups through team-building activities, high-ropes course experiences and adventure trips. In 1999 I moved to Chicago to work for a YMCA as a Youth and Family Director leading backpacking trips for urban youth and International Service trips with high school students to places like Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Sweden and Russia. While the work was great, the salary was not enough to support me long term. I got into teaching in 2002 and have been working at an Elementary School in the Chicago suburbs as a Physical Education Teacher ever since. In 2004 I got married to Sarah and we are having a blast raising our family- our daughter Hayden who was born in 2007 and our twins (boy/girl) Graham and Elsie and in 2010. My wife is also a teacher so we enjoy our summers off together traveling, camping and exploring Chicago.