Angelo Ford

Angelo Ford is a USAF veteran, former C-17 Globemaster pilot, and professor of film production and critical studies in Southern California. A proud father and husband, he lives with his family where the Pacific meets the mountains.

His adventures as an officer took him on missions across the globe, from combat flights in and over Afghanistan to secret riverbed landings and everything in between.

Those experiences, along with the near-death moments he marked with red pins on a world map, inspired him to write Pins of Peril, a raw memoir about risk, resilience, and the lessons that turn survival into a life fully lived.