From 1993 to 2015, Geof was the Director of the Whatcom Family & Community Network (WFCN), a nonprofit organization that focused on community organizing to support healthy, thriving, children and families. He helped bring CIS to Whatcom County in 2006 and served on its founding board. Originally from Connecticut, he spent nine years in Nashville as a commercial songwriter and performer, moving to Whatcom County in 1982, becoming a father in 1983. He currently helps facilitate a community coalition in Birch Bay and Blaine, continues to write and play music, and spends time on the trails of this beautiful community with his wife, Liz.