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Playtime: softball and sailing, hikes and bikes, snowboards and soars on rollerblades . . . but not simultaneously.
Kevin studied fiction writing at UCLA with best selling novelist Lynn Hightower, at Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and at Grub Street, Boston’s premier non-profit creative writing center, including a Masters Novel class. He loved the summer novel-writing program inPrague on scholarship with authors Robert Everz and Arnost Lustig and Professor Petr Bilk, Chair of the Czech Literature Dept., Charles University. Kevin joined a select group of writers at a Pacific coast lighthouse for author Michael Neff’s novel-writing workshop.
Hidy Ochiai—a Martial Arts Hall of Fame inductee—awarded Kevin a black belt in Washin-Ryu karate after years of overseeing his training, practice, and competitions in kata, sparring, and weapons.
Northeastern University magma cum laude. Joined the U.S. Peace Corps, trained in Samoan culture/language and taught at the Western Samoa Technical Institute (now part of National University of Samoa). While there, he also founded a multi-national culture club, and wrote fiction. One poem, published in over sixty countries, was amusingly misprinted under the name “Kevin Kline,” and the Samoan Observer published another poem, which he wrote as part of a group of Samoan writers.
Howard University School of Law,
Washington, D.C., on scholarship. One of its few Caucasians graduates. Won awards and earned a spot on the national and international moot court teams. Kevin and his classmates protested the Rodney King verdict across from the White House, and often debated on the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial. Law clerk at federal government agencies, and marched in President Clinton’s inaugural parade.
A stint with a high-profile, minority-owned law firm kicked off his legal career. Kevin's own law firmEnjoyed Social Law Library programs like Kafka and the Law, and beinga judge at the American Trial Lawyers Association competition and at Boston University’s moot court competition.
—in Government Center, Boston, for over a decade—is now in the heart of Central Square, Cambridge, Mass.
Teaches various law classes at Bunker Hill Community College of Boston, beginning over a dozen years ago. “[T]he largest community college in Massachusetts. The College enrolls more than 11,700 students on two campuses and at five satellite locations. BHCC is one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in Massachusetts. Six in ten students are people of color and more than half of BHCC’s students are women. The College also enrolls more than 700 international students who come from more than 90 countries and speak 75 different languages."
At Boston Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, a community non-profit corporation, he was a board member and vice president. Volunteered for People Making a Difference, Cambridge Cares About Aids, and local schools such as King Open. Campaigned for others vying for U.S. congress and Cambridge School Committee.
He lives in Reading, MA.
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