Andrew S. Banderas

Activist, Artist, Atheist, Brainstormer, Care taker, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Event planner, Idea generator, Public servant, Single, Student, Writer/Editor

In 2010, I graduated with a B.A. in History and received my Social Sciences credential from California State University, Long Beach. Currently, I live in Fullerton, CA, with my two cats Clawdius and Echo, and my two young sons. I published "What Shadows May Dream: Jesse's Liberation" in 2020 and plan on publishing two more books in the series soon.

Literacy, science, and social democracy.

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American History, Education, Modern World History, Research, tabletop gaming and culture., Writing

Since 2002, I have been on a quest to bring about the positive changes our society so desperately needs by inspiring our youth to hunger for knowledge and seek it around them. For the last decade and a half, I have taught a mix of high school English and Social Sciences in some of Orange County’s toughest neighborhoods. The challenges and missing components in reading that have dulled our youth’s attraction to books are elements I have been battling to decipher for over two decades as I have volunteered or worked with children and teens in different capacities throughout Orange County, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. My quest is set to spread literacy against a rising tide of anti-intellectualism, anti-democratic values, and an onslaught of technological and commercial distractions. But I refuse to give in or give up.

Art and board games