After graduating from Johns Hopkins University, Will headed to California to begin graduate studies in American diplomatic history. It was 1967 in Berkeley California and a cultural revolution was well

underway. He decided that making history was more important than studying it. He joined the fight against the influence that giant corporations were wielding on our food supply, foreign policy, and national politics. Big business, it seemed to him, was running and ruining the country.

But he missed the four seasons of his native Vermont and returned home in 1970. Unable to find a job that would advance the revolution,he opened a small café that served as a gathering place for like-minded people living in the hills of Rutland County. He became the dreaded business man.

But he used the café and subsequent businesses to build community and promote social values. And in 1985 he joined up with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield who were doing the same thing. He traveled the world helping Ben & Jerry scoop shop operators bring the companies 3-part mission to life, retiring as Director of Retail Operations in 2007. For the next three and a half years he stayed closer to home as Executive Director of Vermont Business for Social Responsibility.

Will was raised in Shrewsbury, Vermont and attended one-room schools for grades 1 to 8. He now lives in Hinesburg, Vermont with his wife Kathleen.