Jose Tirado:  

Life Well...After finishing Southwest in 1977 (I actually received the sheepskin in 1978) I bummed around a bit, worked odd jobs, then entered Eckerd College in 1980. I left in 1983 to live in Japan, where I stayed almost 5 years. Practiced Zen in monasteries, drank, wrote a lot and generally got lost, as so many expatriates do while young. Returned Stateside, went to Miami for a year, then moved to LA where I worked at Warner Bros. Pictures from 1989-1994. I was a union president there (I got MORE radical as the years passed!) beat WB in a labor struggle, and continued my usual activist life, forming the first organization of Latino screenwriters ever. I left LA in 1994, moved to Boulder, CO, where I finished my BA in Religious Studies and got an MA in Buddhist Studies from The Naropa Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist university. I became a Chaplain shortly thereafter, caring for the dying in Wisconsin ...Expand for more