Jon Reisdorf is retired elementary school teacher living in Northern California. He is a volunteer counselor on the GI Rights Hotline for over a decade and does intake interviews for CMRN. After being drafted during the Vietnam War and doing two years of alternate service, he worked in many fields including two years working in maximum security prison before attending college at the age of the age of 30. After teaching all subjects including accompanying and directing school choirs, he now directs the McKinleyville Community Choir and lives with his wife and two cats in the coastal college town, Arcata, California.