Reverend Sam Shryock is a resident of Kansas City metro area and has practiced Pagan Spirituality since 2007. He is a third-degree High Priest with the Correllian-Nativist Wiccan tradition, and the organizer for the Kansas City Pagan Pride Day festival, a chapter of the Pagan Pride Project. He is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel. He has a Masters degree in Computer Resource and Information Management, and currently works in the Information Systems field. He is a Freemason, hospice volunteer, husband, father, and grandfather.