Zack Lehtinen was born and raised in Sonoma County, California, educated in the public schools of Forestville, moving on to earn his BA in Modern Literary Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a trained actor and screenwriter, has written, acted in and directed feature-length independent movies, and has recently completed and self-published his first full-length novel, World of Wounds. Zack is the father of three, has worked in multiple capacities as an educator, and has published one book on his unique educational philosophy and approach to unleashing students’ most engaged and authentic love of learning. The book is called Customized Learning: Putting Students in Charge of Their Own Learning. A second book, with the working-title Open Learning: Unleashing Freedom to Learn, will be finished and published before 2016, as will Zack’s upcoming future-set novel, The Meek.