In my free time I love hitting around the tennis ball and roller blading while trying to walk my dog at the same time, sometimes I come home a little blooding as the dog usually walks me, but what can you really expect with a mutt that came off the short bus (he makes up the low IQ in the cuteness department). I’ve recently gotten into watching Hockey live, something about all the testosterone on the ice and slamming each other into the glass; it can really get a boy going.

While I view my job as simply that, a job, and not a defining characteristic, it seems to be the traditional opening line, doesn’t it? Somehow, after spending four years at Queen’s University studying Dramatic Arts and English Literature, I currently find myself working in marketing for a real estate brokerage, primarily doing graphic design. I never imagined that my professional life would follow such an unpredictable path! When I feel I’ve learned all I can learn in one area, I have a tendency to try something completely different.

I was born in a cabin in upstate New York. My father was the off spring of Minor Polish Royalty and my mother a French-Italian girl who had been promised to a nunnery. They both ran from their assigned familial fates and came to America where they met and married. I’m also a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts….I’ve accepted that my lot in life includes a degree of drama… just putting it out there.I grew up in Catholic School where I learned to question everything because I was gay and grew up in a Cathilic School. I didn’t want to be gay growing up because it was very confusing & inconvenient.

13! That’s the number of times I’ve moved around Toronto from birthday to 18. It has given me a perspective of this city I’d not have had, had I stayed in the same home as some friends since birth. Crossing my 28th birthday this year and using the last 10 years to travel to Paris, London, Milan, Jamaica, Berlin and all over the United States. I now know why I still call Toronto home. There is this energy in this city that I can’t find anywhere else (New York does come a close second).

I currently live in Salt Lake City, but I was raised in a conservative Mormon household in Utah County. Religion was never my thing, and ultimately I ended up leaving the church at the age of 15, right around the time I came out to my family as gay. I graduated with honors from school and I moved to Salt Lake City to attend college. I went to Salt Lake Community College on a leadership scholarship, and also served as the president of the school’s leadership council.For the past ten years, I’ve been working in non-profit development, marketing and event planning.