Jon Derby moved to North Carolina in 2003 and began to take photography classes, which expanded to other art classes. He become a lab assistant and adjunct instructor for Digital Photography. Derby came to art later in life. Born in Auburn, New York, and has lived in Missouri, Georgia and for 37 years, Kauai, Hawaii. He has been a teacher, a school administrator, a district administrator and an educational consultant. Derby also served in Vietnam for 22 months as an intelligence analyst for the
U.S. Army from 1968-70.
