Book Description

“ON A RAFT OF DREAMS” is the autobiography of multi-hyphenate Alison C. Ayres. It covers his life journey and pursuit of excellence from his earliest years in 1960s Trinidad and Tobago through to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., part of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic. Ayres is a Pratt Institute Alumnus; a former Advertising Executive: A Songwriter; a former United Nations Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador and a former employee of former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner (Google him), who is currently wanted by U.S. authorities. In his “MUST READ” book, Ayres tells of growing up and living on the Caribbean’s Twin Island Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, before he became a permanent resident of the United States. He shares his experiences as a foreign student at Pratt, the prestigious institution for Art and Design; as an Ad Exec; as a United Nations Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador, as well as full details of his 5 years experience working for the disgraced former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, from 1994 to 1998, and the events that led him to withdraw his services from the 5 football (soccer) entities he served under Warner. Ayres will tell of extreme hardships, which began from infancy, while being raised by his single parent mother who was born deaf; and despite continued hardships, how he stayed focused to relentlessly pursue and achieve his childhood dreams in Art, Music, and Football (Soccer). Alison C. Ayres was raised by his deaf single parent mother, together with 4 siblings; 3 of them who were older than he was and one younger. Growing up in abject poverty, he had witnessed his mother’s never-ending struggles to raise and provide life’s most basic necessities for her children. His mother’s struggles became his primary source of motivation to succeed, and provided the impetus for him to pursue the dreams he was harboring from his early childhood, towards his ultimate dream of making his mother both happy and proud one day. More specifically, dreams of becoming a successful professional soccer player; a bonafide commercial artists; and a successful songwriter. In pursuit of those dreams, and before he became a permanent U.S. resident, Ayres had anchored himself in his homeland, and traveled far from his humble birthplace; with hard work, grace, humility, a great amount of determination and remarkable resilience, as the major contributors to his accomplishments. Ayres is a U.S. citizen who has been living in New York for many years now.