Meet the team.

Alec has spent most of his career in education where he has taught every grade level from kindergarten to community college. He is a fourth-generation educator so it seems to be in his blood. Alec attended San Diego State University where he found the field of anthropology, which transformed his worldview. Alec went on to get a Masters degree in anthropology from California State University, East Bay where he focused on cultural identity of the Yucatan Maya and Quechua and Aymara peoples of the Sacred Valley in Peru. He later went on to get a Masters degree in Public Policy from California State University, Monterey Bay in collaboration with the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute all while getting a K-12 teaching credential and teaching middle school in his home town of Hollister, California.

In 2011 Alec and his wife Nicole took teaching jobs in Seoul, Korea where he taught high school AP History and Global Comparative Governments and Politics. Teaching in Korea allowed for Alec and Nicole to travel extensively through Asia and Europe. Alec has currently visited forty-eight countries and yearns for new cultural experiences which may expand his anthropological self. In 2017 Alec obtained a full-time tenure-track anthropology position at a community college in Central California. This is when he met his partner in power, Peter Fulks.

In 2019 Alec began his PhD work at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Anthropology and Social Change department where he focused on the anthropology of policy, specifically analyzing the phenomenology of Senate Bill 1391 (2014) which allowed and compensated (tax payer funded) for face-to-face college teaching inside of prisons. Alec completed his PhD titled: Policy Morphology: The Policy-Culture Complex and the Phenomenology of Culture and Identity Change in May of 2025.