Barred from higher education and faced with religious persecution because of his Baha’i faith, O’Mead decided to come to the US from Iran a month before the 1979 revolution. Within a year he was deported because of hostage crisis and became a refugee seeking asylum in the US. He achieved his goal of higher education to become a chiropractor and moved to Anchorage-one of the most diverse cities in the US-to serve all. He believes Earth is but one country and mankind its

citizens.