Author | Green Leader | Health Advocate | Youth Worker | Vegan Athlete | Father
Kaiden and his daddy in Griffith Park, one range over from the Hollywood sign hill.
Jarid Manos is author of Ghetto Plainsman and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Great Plains Restoration Council. He has been published or written about in the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, USA Today, Smithsonian, Congressional Quarterly, Houston Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal, Grist, Yes! and many others, and is a featured guest speaker nationwide, having spoken at churches, organizations, rallies, conferences, businesses, chambers of commerce, and schools and universities, including MIT. He is also a health advocate and youth worker. Through his guidance, GPRC has helped found the new Ecological Health movement which helps young people heal themselves through healing our shattered prairies and plains. A vegan athlete, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Black Vegetarian Society of Texas. Mr. Manos resides in Fort Worth and Houston, Texas, and he and Karla are parents to 11 year old Kaiden. Ghetto Plainsman is his first book.
Visit Great Plains Restoration Council at GPRC.org.
Deadly tornado beginning to drop out of the sky west of downtown. Fort Worth, April 13, 2007.
GHETTO PLAINSMAN is a "tough, beautifully written and deeply spiritual story of redemption and healing through America's underbelly and soul, from a rural childhood to the inner city streets to the even more violent outback of the American West. With comparisons to such classics as DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS and MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND, GHETTO PLAINSMAN is not only a new literary classic, but has survival implications for everyone and our endangered Earth." 