For over two decades Mishka Straka studied various Chinese internal martial arts, including 10 years with Martin Werner, martial arts scholar and instructor.
Mishka is also the founder of the Humboldt Permaculture Guild and the annual seed and plant exchange. A former lecturer at HSU, Mishka has worked as a solar professional. He has worked to create bio-preserves in Chile, worked in sustainable forestry, and explored temperate rain forests throughout the world, co-created the community park in Garberville, and has done market gardening.
Intellectually multidimensional, he has an undergraduate degree in economics, completed a premedical program for naturopathic medicine, and a graduate degree in environmental systems.
Position:
OLLI Instructor
