Mr. Graham is the president of Tradewind Capital, a legal and financial advisory firm. Graham was born in New York City, is a graduate of Brown University (B.A.), Loyola Marymount (M.A., English), and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.) Graham taught at Lund University as the American lecturer in the English Department. He has worked widely in education and philanthropy, serving as director of (i) a Rudolf Steiner school, (ii) a developer of school facilities for high-quality charter school operators serving at risk urban populations, and (iii) the Los Angeles office for a national community development financing institution. Graham created thirty public schools in California. He has raised and leveraged $500M in grant and operating funds, new markets tax credit equity, and public and private debt to support low-income communities. Graham is also a practicing lawyer admitted to the New York and California Bar Associations, a developer of commercial real estate, and director of a Washington State-based company in consumer-packaged goods. Graham published a book of his poetry, Elegy to a Surveyor in 2019, and is working on a second volume.