Jason, born and raised in southern California, attended a high school seminary before going to University of California, Santa Cruz to complete a B.A. in Community Studies. He worked nine years in the travel industry, including seven as a flight attendant. In the midst of his high-in-the-sky career, he took a leave to do something more down-to-earth: serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi. Jason is now in his second year working in the Education Abroad Office of Seattle University.
In the wake of the release of files detailing sexual abuse and cover-ups in Los Angeles, Jason Welle thinks about what it is to take up and bear the grief of a community.
Seeking the root of the rash of mass shootings in the United States (31 of them since Columbine in ’99), Jason Welle uncovers a national lack of attention to the mentally ill.
