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Derek was homeschooled from 3rd grade through high school in North Texas. Knowing the benefits as well as the investment and challenges of homeschooling, he waited for God to call on his wife, Jen, to be the lead in their homeschool journey for their three wonderful daughters, now 12, 11, and 9. In addition to being schooled by his parents, he was influenced greatly by a number of dedicated individuals and a variety of organizations through his youth. He is forever grateful for the many people that poured into him that allowed him to graduate from SMU with a BBA in Finance.

He spends the rest of his time outside of work at his church (Kingsland), helping to build F3 in Katy (a men's workout group dedicated to building up leaders), volunteering on a scholarship committee for the North Texas GPA, and camping, fishing, hunting, gardening, and traveling with his girls to see God's creation throughout this wonderful world.

He is honored to be chosen to help lead LIGHT into the next couple of years and is excited to bring his personal homeschooling experiences with him to help make LIGHT a valuable community of homeschoolers that help encourage and build each other up while we all provide the best learning environment to our kids that we can!