Don Paul moved to New Orleans from the San Francsico Bay Area in January 2006 to work with Common Ground and Rebuild Green. He was the youngest winner of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University (age 20 in 1971) and held the world best for running 50 kilometers (2:50:55) between 1982 and 1992. He’s the author of more than 20 books and the leader or producer of more than 20 albums. He continues to work in New Orleans.