About the Adventurer

My name is Kevin, and I help people develop cross-cultural understanding and appreciation through education, travel and tourism. I accomplish this as a guide, teacher, writer, and ambassador.

• Guide: leading others in first-hand experiences with the wonders, natural and man-made, and countless stories the world has to offer
• Teacher: teaching language, culture, and history both formally and informally bringing real-life experience and knowledge to the classroom
• Writer: sharing the story of places and people so that those who can’t have a first-hand encounter may gain insight into faraway places and their details through prose and poetry
• Ambassador: helping combat ignorance and stereotypes to promote understanding of foreign ideas, their creators, and their homes as a speaker, photographer, and storyteller

With increased understanding and appreciation of diverse ideas and practices, individuals and organizations can accomplish great things to make the world a better place.

This is what I’ve been trying to do through this blog and what I plan to expand on through my career and life choices. Hopefully, I can help a few people expand their horizons to thinking outside of their own little spheres into the wide, wonderful, beautiful world around them.

For five years, I oversaw and helped create an English language curriculum for Amerlish, a Beijing-based English training company, that has now been published by Foreign Languages Press, one of China’s biggest and most prestigious publishers. Alongside this curriculum development, I actively taught elementary-aged students and helped train new teachers.

I have degrees from Ensign College, Brigham Young University, and Grand Canyon University. See my LinkedIn profile for a full overview of my professional qualifications and experience.

Recognition and Publication

• Children’s books written and illustrated by Kevin and published on Amazon
  • The Legend of Maize: Quetzalcoatl and the Corn Plant an Aztec Legend, 2021
  • A Night Unlike Any Other: A Christmas Poem, 2020
  • How the Birds Got Their Colors and the Kaha Bird, 2020
  • Picking the Perfect Pumpkin, 2020
  • Mondays in the Palace Museum, 2020
• Amerlish Language and Culture Program Levels 1-4 – published through Foreign Languages Press in Beijing, China, beginning in 2020.
  • The Amerlish Language and Culture Program is a comprehensive English language curriculum with levels from pre-k through elementary grades. The curriculum is built on the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, and it is created with integrated culture and literature components.
• Interviewed for new attraction at This is the Place Heritage Park on Salt Lake City’s KUTV-Channel 2’s Fresh Living daytime show – aired June 5, 2015
• Photograph published of Marin County Civic Center in Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly magazine – Winter 2015
• Photograph of Taliesin West used on Thunderbirds Suites (a Scottsdale Best Western hotel) website
• Freshly Pressed on WordPress.com – January 9, 2012 and February 28, 2012
• The Y Book – published 2010