Sean Sands...

Sean is a writer/PR-type originally from the Deep South. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1994, convinced that he could save the world through his craft of awe-inspiring letters to disgruntled customers. When that didn’t work, he switched to awe-inspiring speeches for corporate executives trying to shape telecommunications policy. And then journalism…and then public service.

He eventually realized that the world was not his to save, so he turned his gaze inward. Sean practices (as in, 'repeats over and over in an effort to improve at something') Tibetan Buddhism, learning to peacefully co-exist with the monkeys that inhabit his mind.

By day, Sean is a senior manager in the District of Columbia government, where he still writes and PRs while he juggles the flaming chainsaws that keep local bureaucracy moving forward. He has established himself as a go-to executive who can get things done – not exactly saving the world, but still, creating a better quality of life for residents and business owners in the Nation’s Capital.

Sean likes to blog about spirituality and enjoys reading about the religious traditions of ancient cultures. He is an ambitious (though decidedly amateur) polyglot, speaking, studying or cursing to a varying degree in Spanish, German, Japanese, Arabic and Taiwanese Mandarin. He is an ENFJ, though his “E” is not as big as it used to be, and lives in the U Street neighborhood of Washington with his spouse and their two dogs.

(cover photo: digitalblasphemy.com)