Jason Wyman is a life-long educator, writer, performer and learner. He hails from Minnesota and fled the frigid winters and muggy summers for what he assumed was sunny California. He was greeted instead by the ocean wind, foggy days, and fits of rain. And he loves it.

Jason is a consummate connector. His skillful networking, which is rooted in compassion and creativity, has brought over a million dollars of in-kind services and peer-based education to communities across the San Francisco Bay Area with a special emphasis on marginalized communities, youth, seniors and cultural workers. He has worked for OMI/Excelsior Beacon Center, California School-Age Consortium, The Partnership for Children and Youth, San Francisco Unified School District, Youth Development Peer Network/Youth Worker: Collective, Adobe Youth Voices and the YMCA.

He is currently an Project Director/Ensemble Member of OutLook Theater Project, a queer community theater company, and Co-Founder of 14 Black Poppies, a small business that provides renewal services and workshops rooted in holistic and simple-to-use arts, wellness, and community practices. He also is a contributor to In Our Words: A Salon for Queers and Company. He has been a featured guest on Lilycat on Stuff and the KPFA Morning Show. Additionally, he has been an invited panelist, presenter, and lecturer at Sex::Tech, the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, and state-wide and regional conferences on afterschool, youth development, and youth employment.

Jason's mission in life is to sustain a world filled with arts and wellness that actively works on healing past injustices, inequities, and inequalities. His approach to art-making, whether it is performance or writing or photography, emphasis simple form and practice in an effort to demystify the arts-making process for diverse, intergenerational audiences. He believes that everyone is an artist; sometimes it just takes some structure and inquiry to find.

Jason loves to cook, write fables, and take pictures with his camera phone. He was married to his beautiful husband in 2007 and again in 2008 when it was briefly legal in California. He dreams of a future where all queers are free.

You can reach Jason at jason@14blackpoppies.com.