Industry	Non-Profit
Occupation	Artist & Instructor
Location	Moved from Clifton, NJ, United States
Introduction	I'm an artist using my skills to contribute to community building and character education. I work mostly with Queer Youth in Newark, New Jersey. Presently I am developing a public mural curriculum which employs a collaborative design process. This process allows community participants to perform the job normally given over to a Lead Artist. To share this and other challenges, I work with the marvelous non-profit, Project U.S.E.
Interests	The cultivation of a sustainable humane culture & cartooning, the arts, feminism, drawing, Lynda Barry, yesirree Bob.
Favorite movies	Anything with Montgomery Clift: Miss Lonelyhearts, A Place In the Sun also, Drop Dead Fred, looking forward to my next favorite movie. Didn't see a one all summer.
Favorite music	Leslie Spit Treeo, The International Silver String Submarine Band.
Favorite books	The Brothers Karamazov, An American Tragedy, Nadja, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Great Transformation, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, What it is, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Vita Nuova, The Visionary Landscape, Being on Earth, Poetic Diction.

Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?

As has been said, the rabbit was the fastest runner until it wondered how it ran. Signed Howie Ran.