Dwayne Hunn

Former Clevelander Dwayne Hunn's exposure to Jesuit training helped him acquire two master's degrees and a Ph.D. But the sticky part of his education came from Peace Corps experiences in the slums of Mumbai, muckraking political and initiative work in California with Ed and Joyce Koupal of People's Lobby, and junkyard castle building with Lord Michael of Rubel's Castle and the knights of his splintered and creosoted round table in Glendora, California.

His first book, Ordinary People Doing the Extraordinary: The Story of Ed and Joyce Koupal and the Initiative Process (a condensation of a larger yet unpublished work) was among Ralph Nader's Top 10 Books to Read in 2009.

The second book, Every Town Needs a Castle, Especially When Built of Recycled Junk and Spunk¬ also revolves around larger than life ordinary people achieving the seemingly impossible. Hidden amidst the aged adages bestowed upon the pharmers of Rubel's Castle, waiting inside the discarded telephone poles, railroad ties, beams, and rocks from which a castle would magically rise, was the barn and community building spirit that is needed today to move America beyond its post bubble economy to one less greedy and more sturdy. Relaying on more laughter than hard glares, both books plant the seeds of how to accomplish extraordinary deeds.