Matthew and Hiromi Sieradski met at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1998 during their senior year in an intensive year-long program called Multicultural Psychological Counseling. They soon fell in love and married in 2000 in Seattle, Washington. Hiromi is a native of Miyazaki, Japan, and first moved to the states shortly before her 21st birthday. Matthew was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon and has lived his whole life in the Pacific Northwest. After graduating college together, both worked in the fields of mental health and special education. While Matthew attended acupuncture school, beginning in 2001, Hiromi supported them by working for a non-profit social work agency. After graduating and having their first child, their son Daishin, they moved to Eugene to be closer to Matthew’s family and to study with Joel Morwood, Spiritual Director of the Center for Sacred Sciences. Soon thereafter their second child, their daughter Mina, was born.
Matthew and Hiromi always envisioned a future where they could positively influence the world around them, but felt stymied by the entrenched institutions that govern all worldly activities, albeit however positively intentioned. It became clear over time that novelty in life is primarily created by one’s own actions, and so in 2010 the Green Phoenix Institute was born. Matthew and Hiromi hope that their shared vision for a more conscious, loving society will be engendered through the Green Phoenix Institute, and invite everyone who shares this dream to participate with them.
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