Stephen E MurphyStephen E. Murphy has lived and traveled "south of the border" for decades. He enjoys long lasting friendships in Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Panama and El Salvador. He has held executive positions in the BankBoston, Paramount Pictures, an the Inter-American Development Bank. For the first Bush administration, he was appointed Worldnet Television director, U.S. Information Agency. Under President George W. Bush, he served as Regional Director, Inter-Americas, for the Peace Corps. As a volunteer, he taught economics at Miami Jackson High School. The Miami Herald and the Wall Street Journal recognized his efforts to teach inner city students about the stock market and how their picks beat the S&P 500 in 1995. He left Miami for hometown Seattle, where he has taught "Latin America Business" at Seattle University and consulted for firms expanding to the Americas. He has published articles on Cuba and Brazil for the Puget Sound Business Journal and for Seattle's Trade Development Alliance Quarterly. Murphy mentors students and young professionals in Miami, Seattle, Havana and Rio de Janeiro and serves as chapter advisor to the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, University of Washington. He loves swimming in open bodies of water all over the world. Encouraged by UW alumni, he self-published a 2016 memoir, On the Edge: An Odyssey, about "the turning points in life." The author has presented in three countries in 60 different venues, including Books & Books (Coral Gables, FL) and La Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba. The book has sold in excess of 1,000 copies and garnered more than 90 Amazon reviews. Murphy is researching a new book, Brazilian Odyssey, and is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Read More Read Less