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November 29, 2021 50 mins

On today's show, I speak with Tom Ontiveros, a lighting and projection designer as well as a professor and chair of the theater department at the University of La Verne. Tom has such an interesting and unexpected from starting college as a biology major, to working at the Museum of Natural History in LA, to finding himself as an emergency professor for one semester in Pennsylvania and falling in love with teaching. While I could keep going about Tom's journey, I feel it's better to let the rest of it unwind on its own in this conversation.

For a full transcript of this episode visit beyondthelightspodcast.com.

Mentioned in this Episode
[00:04:18] Siti Company
[00:07:03] Museum of Natural History
[00:09:47] Intersection for the Arts
[00:10:08] Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
[00:10:31] Campo Santo
[00:11:12] The Culture Project
[00:11:24] The Exonerated
[00:40:18] University of La Verne
[00:47:14] Norco 80

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