Jomil lives in Golden with his wife and 11-year-old son. He is a poet and scholar who identifies as AAPI, and he is a professor at Arapahoe Community College. His Ph.D. is in English and Consciousness Studies. He has received training at the Writer?s Workshop at the University of Iowa, and holds Master?s Degrees in Postcolonial Studies, Communication, English, and Philosophy from New York University. His poetry, short stories, and critical essays have been published in Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Vol. 7, New Feathers Anthology, Progenitor Literary Journal, Cobra Milk, the Modern Horizons Journal), the Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies Vol. 3, Issue 2, and Peripheral Matters Journal from the City University of New York, among others. He has also given a book review of How Much Can You Fathom? An Introduction to Philosophizing, by Dr. John Mizzoni for Broadview Press. In his writing, literature, and philosophy courses, Jomil reminds his students that they are taking a leap of existential faith in not just learning something, but learning about their core selves, about their capacity to create with joy, curiosity, and authenticity. The ?showing up? of his students and their belief in themselves are the ultimate reward. To that end, Jomil fosters a healthy, sustainable, safe, accountable, compassionate, and empowering classroom community. He values not just creating social belonging but cognitive belonging?a sense that everyone has something important to contribute, that there is a common good that binds us. That common good stems from his students? and collaborators? creative, relational, and ethical power. Talent is not rare. What?s rare is the commitment and stamina to keep writing, to keep growing, to make one?s own learning and an ethics of care one and the same. Caring for the writerly self is a decisive component in being able to keep writing, and writing better. It is not hyperbole, then, that Jomil thinks in all sincerity that poetry?in particular, the way it can teach us to give a name to the nameless so that it can be thought, the way it serves as the expression of the presence and primacy of consciousness?that poetry, as such, can save the world.