John Staniloiu

For the past 40 years, I have been an educator, committed to alternative education, civic and human rights, world hunger, alternatives to human incarceration, and various environmental issues. I have university degrees in education, counseling, and administration, and have worked as a counselor, school principal, and consultant. My greatest learning experiences have been in the inner cities and ghettos of urban centers, the hills of Appalachia, the barrios of Mexico, the prison cells of state-run facilities, and service ventures in Rwanda and northern Uganda, Africa.  In the 1980s, I created and ran an alternative school for teenagers on 800 pristine acres of land in southern Missouri, where I presently reside in a community committed to sharing resources and developing self-sustainability.  I have been trained as a leader of Native American sweat lodges and vision quests, and have spent hundred of hours in self-development courses.  My intention for the rest of my life is to create peace, harmony, joy, laughter, and empowerment wherever my journey takes me.