JONATHAN HOOK:  

Life After high school I went through a broad series of educational and life experiences. I've lived in New York, Illinois, Germany, and Texas (for the last 25 years). I've worked as high school and college teacher, football and wrestling coach, football player (Texas and Germany), photographer, musician, non-profit organization director, as the first Director of Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs for EPA's office in Dallas, and as the Director of International Indigenous and American Indian Initiatives at the University of North Texas (the first of its kind in the state), and as a Research Professor specializing in Indigenous issues in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. We got hit hard by the recession and lost both job and home. We moved to the south Texas border where I worked as the Superintendent of Tribal Education Programs for the Kickapoo Tribe and started a language preservation program. In 2018 I returned to Federal service as an Immigration Services Officer in San Francisco where I interviewed applicants for green cards and citizenship. I also initiated a project with the Mayan immigrant community in Oakland. In 2020 I retired and we moved back to our home on the Texas-Mexico border. I curre...Expand for more