Alvaro Passaro is a polymath and free-thinker with various interests in the arts, music, poetry, literature, evolutionary psychology, bio-molecular physics, environmental physics, psychosomatic immunology, and psycho-pedagogy.
Background
Ethnicity:
Father: Italian, Italkim, Spanish, Sephardic, and Carthaginian heritage. Mother: Italian, Galician, Asturian, and French heritage.
Alvaro Passaro was born on January 20, 1959 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He emigrated to the United States in 1986, becoming an American citizen in 2002. The name Passaro is a variation of the Greek Passarus (Pass Aris) which means Children of Peace. The name traveled from the Levant to North Africa and from there to Sicily and Southern Italy and later the Americas. Ferrari has also Greek morphology (Ferr Aris) Children of Iron, from the Latin Ferro, and the Greek Aris, but is a Nordic Italian name. Both names have heraldry dating back to 500 CE and 800 CE. Ferrari also traveled from Northern Europe to the Americas during the great emigration waves of the XIX and XX centuries. Both families the Passaros and the Ferraris settled in New York, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Montevideo and embarked in a variety of professions and businesses, mostly in the fields of transportation, public health, and manufacturing.
Education
As a child he attended several prestigious schools including Enriqueta Compte y Riqué's Kindergarten, Latinoamericano College and Liceo in Montevideo, Uruguay, and Colegio Seminario in Montevideo, Uruguay. Later he attended both the School and Liceo Elbio Fernandez and the Alfredo Vazquez Institute and briefly studied in the National University's School of Law and the College of Humanities.
In New York Alvaro attended State University of New York-Empire State College and graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology and Education. In 1999 he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Applied Psychology-School Counseling from NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. In 2006 he received an Advanced Certificate in School Leadership from the College of Saint Rose, in Albany, New York. He has also received certificates in Positive Psychotherapy Practices from the Zur Institute in California, Organizational Competencies from Cornell University, and Trauma Responsive Educational Practices from NYC DOE-University of Chicago. In 2020 he obtained a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from AIU.
Career
Alvaro worked as a columnist, journalist, and correspondent for several papers and magazines in Europe, the USA, and South America. In Uruguay he contributed to the weeklies Dignidad and Jaque, and also read his short stories at Radio Palacio Salvo. In New York he collaborated as a correspondent for European magazines La Luna (Madrid) and Puente (Stockholm), and also wrote articles for several Hispanic newspapers including El Diario-La Prensa, Impacto Latino, and De Norte A Sur. He also participated in several public readings with the Neo-Romantic poetry movement and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
As a musician he performed with his jazz trio at the Cabaret Voltaire- Alliance Française, Montevideo, and in several Greenwich and Lower East Side venues with his band "Gato Garcia", with which he recorded the album "Atlantico" with Manny Duran, Geraldo Velez, Juma Santos, and Anthony Herrera. He has also performed in YouTube videos with the nickname Ben Rafael.
In New York he worked as a teacher for the Dalton School and the Pace Business School, and later for Touro College as a Student Placement Advocate. He also worked as a counselor for the Title 1 Program (Bureau of Non Public Schools) NYC DOE, and the NYC Public School System.
During the Covid 19 pandemic, he contributed to the international scientific and academic conglomerate CrowdFight, based in Barcelona, Spain.
Currently he is working on counseling and psychotherapy theories based on Maslow, Bandura, Super, and Holland's work, composing Iberian and Andalusian music for classical guitar, and pre-producing a film on Jewish homelessness and military service.
His net-worth is $20.
Religion
Ben Noah. Ivri. HaShem. One God that is bigger and beyond your own Ego. Human as a moral, ethical, and spiritual being, not as an exploited/exploitative ant. Belief in the principle of universal intelligence. Belief in creativity of the mind and the spirit. Belief in the Soul. Love yourself as your neighbor , Love your neighbor as yourself , Or at least live and die trying.
Politics
Live and let live. Free trade, free press. Public Education.
