Brad deGraf has been a core contributor and occasional resident here at the ModNomad Sanctuary Shack since our founding. He collaborated on several activism projects during the 2016 election cycle, and continues to contribute myriad design ideas and solutions. A truly collaborative spirit, his mind is always going! Check out his wildly impressive CV. 

As we began to work on ModNomad Studio's kitchen dilemma in 2015, Brad was converting the carport of his former midcentury architectural gem (by architect Robert Marquis) in Mill Valley, CA, into a studio apartment and we spit-balled many of the initial mobile kitchen ideas that led to GoGo Kitchen and greywater system prototypes. We also shared building materials to reduce waste—like some leftover pipe from his deck project, which adorns the original GoGo Kitchen that lives here at the studio. His version now lives on a live/work compound he's begun designing with his partner, Julia Whitty, in Sebastapol, CA, in line with the same principle of integrating art, design and activism in service of the common good. Nothing makes us happier than seeing this idea spread and adapting it in various ways to create more live/work shared communities with space and practices conducive to thinking bigger and bolder about how to address the complex challenges facing people and planet.