Hailing from Huntington Beach, California, Garret has been a Central Coast resident since 1994. He has a BA in Social Ecology from UC Irvine with a concentration in Criminology, Law and Society. While an MBA student at Cal Poly, he started working with a local company in partnership with America Online. Cutting his teeth in the web, graphic design, e-commerce, and online marketing while the web was in its infancy, he founded his company Arclight Media and has served the Central Coast with design and technology consulting services ever since. He’s actively involved with non-profit and philanthropic organizations like Assistance League of SLO County, Awakening Giantz, Central Coast Masonic Lodge #237, Friends of the Santa Maria Valley Railroad, the Guadalupe Community Action Coalition, and the Guadalupe Business Association. He was part-time faculty with Allan Hancock College in the Fine Arts department from 2018-2022 and is a resident of Santa Maria