ABOUT

Sabas Hernan Flores Whittaker is a multidisciplinary artist born in Puerto Cortez, Honduras, of English speaking and West Indian Garifuna\Garinagu descent. Though he primarily obtained his education in public schools in San Pedro Sula and Puerto Cortez. His grandmother reinforced his English learning at home and via private tutoring with the help throughout the Methodist Church. That he’d obtained an education in both English and Spanish.

At just 15 years old, Sabas Whittaker enlisted as a merchant marine and Sailed out of Puerto Cortes, where he served aboard the North American-flagged tug boat, the USS Atlas, under the command of Captain David Spicer. Sabas took advantage of each educational opportunity that the maritime career allowed, obtaining his equivalent of the baccalaureate in science and letters. After sailing for eight years, he was promoted to the rank of officer. Sabas served aboard 16 different ships and retired from the sea at age 23, to continue working and studying throughout the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States.

Sabas Whittaker later worked as a psychiatry case manager, therapist, and Lead Mental Health Worker for the Latino unit in mental health. After serving for nearly 30 years in the mental health field, he retired from the Connecticut State Department of Mental Health and Addictions Services. Since retired, Sabas Whittaker continues to dedicate his service to the community as a humanitarian activist, renowned author, painter, musician-songwriter, and visual artist. Sabas has been a member of the Association of American Composers, Authors, and Advertisers (ASCAP) since 1991.

In 1998 Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras, leaving almost 15000 victims, including 5,657 dead, and 8,058 missings, and along with other prominent Honduran and other Latin Americans throughout the Northeast, he helps organized to create the Honduras Relief Committee of Connecticut to help provide humanitarian aid to their country of birth.

The author has written and published several books of poetry, history, a novel, and various stage and screenplays. Some of these being: Vestiges of a Journey, Tears of Joy Peace and Harmony, Songs to Valentines, Africans In the Americas, and Don’t Look Down on your Brother if You’re Not Going to Pick Him Up. In May 2018, he published Faith in the Field, a historical theological perspective on mental health. Later, Canto Al Grito del Emigrante En Voz Latina, being his first book written in the Spanish language, Poetic Dance Across the World, which is also a songbook of original songs and La Fe En El Campo, is the Spanish translation of Faith In The Field.