Ravo Brown - Field Instructor

Ravo Brown has been skating for 4 years. He was drawn to skateboarding from the very first push! When he realized how inclusive and supportive the local skate scene was, he began to explore all the terrain from skate parks to vert ramps and backyard pools. He finds inspiration in the individual creativity that each skater brings to the session.  Ravo has skated many of the local parks in the DMV area but his true love is finding and skating backyard pools.

Ravo has always been an athletic person participating in gymnastics, boxing, lacrosse, and basketball. As the oldest brother of 4 he has great kid skills and a positive attitude toward life and having fun!

When Ravo isn’t skating he enjoys doing his own car repairs and currently works in his uncle’s auto shop in Waldorf MD.  He is a talented musician of 12 years playing a multitude of string and percussion instruments and enjoys composing hip instrumental tracks using fruity loops. We are stoked to have Ravo on board!

Bill Kaczor - CEO

Bill is the CEO and co-founder of Ancestral Knowledge. Bill has worked and studied intensively with the masters in the fields of; youth mentoring, naturalist studies, primitive technology and tracking. He has been teaching children and adults in these subjects since 1998 — Bill was a lead instructor at Children of the Earth Foundations- Coyote Tracks summer camps for 5 years, and two years as the assistant director. He has instructed students at the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, Rivercane & Falling Leaves Rendezvous, Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Gathering (MAPS Meet), Bill can often be found instructing at Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School teaching primitive traps, bow making, flint knapping, pottery and hide tanning. In 1999 after 11 years, Bill chose to leave his skateboard/snowboard business and dedicate his life to helping people connect with the Earth through ancient skills. Shortly afterwards, Bill designed and was granted an after school and summer program for the 21st Century Learning Community in Public School District 150 of Peoria, Illinois. This program was successful in that it led the children to a respect for nature, respect for themselves and others, self-discipline and adventure. Bill is a specialist in bow making, stone tool technologies, hide tanning, fire by friction and hunting and experienced in many more skills.

Read what Tom Brown Jr said about Bill