Tripp Friedler is the Founder and Man­ag­ing Part­ner of Free Gul­liv­er, LLC. A grad­u­ate from Philips Exeter Acad­e­my, Tripp earned a bachelor’s from Amherst Col­lege and a law degree from Tulane Uni­ver­si­ty Law School. Tripp is the author of Free Gul­liv­er: Six Swift Lessons In Life Plan­ning and formed the Young Lead­er­ship Coun­cil with a hand­ful of oth­er young busi­ness lead­ers in 1986. Tripp has served as Pres­i­dent of the Young Lead­er­ship Coun­cil and is involved with the Isidore New­man School, the Arts Coun­cil, the Con­tem­po­rary Arts Cen­ter, the New Orleans Jazz & Her­itage Foun­da­tion Advi­so­ry Coun­cil, and the Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vice Cen­ter. Tripp Friedler is donat­ing 100% of the prof­its from sales of The Tun­nel to men­tal health char­i­ties through­out the Unit­ed States, includ­ing those list­ed at the end of the book.