About

Cliff has worked in the private and public sectors, for small independent businesses and international companies. He’s worked for local, state, and federal governments, as well as non-profits. He’s seen how all these different entities can work well, and work together. He’s also sometimes seen how they can’t.

Cliff has a college degree in biology, but it has nothing to do with his current job in IT support. He’s found that he’s in pretty good company in this regard. Many of us don’t end up where we expected to in our careers.

Cliff started getting involved with volunteering for nonprofits and the occasional political campaign years ago, when he realized how much of what seems to divide us wasn’t necessary at all. Issues that are supposedly “left” or “right” often are neither, in his eyes, but problems we can all work together on. It can be difficult though, and he has come to understand how viewing the world as a battle between “us” and “them” is much easier, especially when you’re exhausted at the end of the day from working and taking care of the kids. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Cliff enjoys volunteer work, computer gaming, and a little backpacking in the mountains when he can get time for it. He lives with his wife and four cats in a small, 120-year-old home in Nampa and drives a car that’s old enough to buy beer.