Tyrone -- Mr. Magic

He stands 6'5". He gladly performs the role of bouncer when asked at events. He always wears his Superman belt buckle. But do you want to know the most powerful thing about him? The thing that truly stands out?

His smile.

He loves to have fun. Loves it, loves it, loves it. He lives every day as if it were his last because there was a time, growing up in Richmond, where life bred that inescapable immediacy.

What set him free from that feeling is the same thing that sets him apart: his creative mind and childlike spirit. Though his DeAnza High School athletic coaches were hot after him for his size and athletic ability (he was the MVP of his Volleyball team his junior year -- the first year he'd ever played organized volleyball) it was an elective robotics program where he first broke ground on discovering who he is becoming.

He enjoyed and had great success building and operating the robots, but as it turned out it was just a gateway. On the day of the robotics competition (like you don't wish you were there), an emcee was needed to host the event. "Hey," somebody said, "Tyrone likes to talk". The usually verbose Tyrone could only manage to say "yes".

He's added tricks to his bag, too -- literally. No one has to ask twice for a deck of cards with magically moving kings when he's around. Nor do they have to ask where he is. He's a head above the crowd; the crowd that is surrounding him and enjoying that smile.