Bio

Bio: Strider Benston
Recent Employment
Teacher: St. Vrain Schools, Denver Public Schools 1995 – 2007
Teacher: Long-term substitute, Martin Luther King MS March-June, 2001
Teacher: History & Literature, Colorado High School of Denver, 2000
Education
Master of Humanities, Univ. of Colorado @ Denver, 1998
Focus in Philosophy & History, 60 credit hours, 3.65 GPA
Graduate work Cambridge University, England, 1994,
8 hours, Poetry & History: grades, A
Batchelor of Arts: Political Science with Honors, Univ. Colorado @ Denver, 1994
150 credit hours, 3.82 GPA
Top student in UCD, 1992, 24 credit hours, 4. GPA
Who’s Who in American Colleges & Universities, 1994
Won both group and individual honors, First Place, UCD team, &
Certificate of Excellence for Model Arab League, 1991, 94, at U.S. Air Force Academy
Rapporteur, & leading delegate at United States Air Force Academy Assembly, 1991, 1993 on topics of Redefining National Security & U.S. Policy toward Latin America
Scored top rank **** on 24 of 26 categories on Colorado Teachers PLACE Exam
Grew up in Arkansas:
Organized and led internal security force for world historic Voting Rights
March On Montgomery, March 21-25, 1965
Field Secretary: for both SCLC and SNCC, 1965-66
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
& Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Honored in Washington DC as one of four:
Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, 1993

Worked for Republic Freight System, dockworker, 1968-75, Chicago
United States Postal Service, Chicago Bulk Mail Center, Mailhandler, 1976-87
Construction work in Colorado 1987-92, occasionally to present
Delegate to National Committee for New Politics, Chicago, 1967.
Founding President: Concerned Truckers for a Democratic Union, Chicago, 1975-77
Member National Executive Board, Teamsters Ranks United to Help, 1974-75
Chairman of Rules Committee T.R.U.T.H.
Member National Executive Committee, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, 1975-77, TDU
Steward, Chicago Truck Drivers Union, 1974-75
Steward, National Mailhandlers Union, 1976-78
Member of Boulder County Town Hall Meeting Planning Committee
I served with Mayor, Sheriff, County Commissioner, & 5 others to create a public forum
for citizens to discuss the Gulf War in a mutually respectful atmosphere.
Member Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 1987-2002
Delegate to Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, 2001-2002
Father of two married daughters, both with graduate degrees,
Whom I raised as a single father in the inner city of Chicago
I have conducted numerous public seminars under auspices of UUCB, public forums
at BaHai Center of Denver, & am currently on steering group to produce a series of public forums regarding the War, Globalization, and renewed Assault upon Civil Liberties.