User:Andrew Fenker/sandbox

Andrew "Andy" Steven Fenker is a recreational therapist from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Born and raised in Fort Wayne, the youngest child of Richard and Sharon Fenker, he is a graduate of Bishop Dwenger High School and earned his B.S. in Therapeutic Recreation from The Indiana Institute of Technology after attending Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

A major focus in his life has been traumatic brain injury since sustaining major head trauma as a passenger in a 1992 motor vehicle accident, resulting in a coma and neurological rehabilitation with a total hospitalization over 189 days. His academic interests include wellness as it presents in the lives of people with long-term disabilities and therapeutic recreation intervention as a means toward discovering personal wellness in disability.

He has been affiliated at the graduate level at both Ball State and Indiana University as well.

Married to Shannon Fenker, nee Wilson, since 1997, they make a happy home with their dogs and cat.