Calvin Sandborn was born in Alaska to a bush pilot father and social worker mother. He grew up in Northern California, where his mother became the state’s “Social Worker of the Year” — and his father became a traveling salesman and drank himself to death.
Mr. Sandborn has spent his adult life in Canada, first as a community organizer and adult literacy teacher. Over the last twenty-five years he has become one of British Columbia’s leading environmental lawyers. Currently he is a law professor at the University of Victoria, where he teaches public interest advocacy and supervises the noted Environmental Law Clinic.
He is a well-known free-lance journalist, publishing on a wide variety of topics. This memoir and guide is enriched by the author’s years of research into psychology, gender issues and self-help, and by his participation in a weekly men’s group.
Calvin Sandborn lives in Victoria, British Columbia with his daughters and grandson.
Events featuring Calvin Sandborn:
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1.Themed Reading (Growing Up Male, also featuring Dennis Foon) 1:30 – 3:00 pm Saturday, July 19 at the Back Hall
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2.Literary Cabaret (Leaving Patriarch’s Brutal Legacy with Host Sheryl MacKay, also featuring Sharon Butala and Maggie de Vries) 11:15 am – 1:15 pm Sunday, July 20 at the Community Hall.
