Max's Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Fund

On Saturday, January 21st, Max was in a major snowboarding accident in Mammoth. He was airlifted to Fresno Community Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery to stabilize his spine. Despite the surgery, he's been left with a severe spinal cord injury and is now paralyzed from the waist down.

On January 31st, Max took an air ambulance to Craig Hospital, a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center in Colorado. The next 60 days will lay the critical foundation for his long-term recovery. While we are hopeful and optimistic, he has a long road ahead of him and he will need a great deal of support and determination to get through this.

Humbled by the outpour of love and support from friends and family, we’ve started a GoFundMe for loved ones to have a direct hand in helping Max receive the best care possible, including rehabilitation and transitioning his living space to have ADA accessibility and equipment.

If you don’t know Max.

Max is truly one of a kind. He’s always lived life by his own rules and is passionate, dedicated, hardworking, and incredibly perceptive. He’s always seeing opportunities where no one else would and leaning into challenges others would run from because he has the heart, talent, and smarts to create things no one else could have ever imagined. Max is many things to many people — he’s a treasured friend, a loving brother and son, a rising architect, an invaluable business partner, and an empathetic, curious person.

Max brings beauty and humor to so many things, inspiring us all the time, and, as cliche as it sounds, he challenges people to make the world a better place. Max is the first to ask “why?” and can be counted on to thoroughly exhaust all avenues in pursuit of the answer. Before his accident, Max was obsessed with surfing and traveled all over searching for the best surf spots. He spent his days working on high-profile architecture projects, personal design ventures, and volunteering his spare time to his beloved hometown of Huntington Beach to help redesign a 40-acre park that would increase the quality of life for thousands of residents, a goal that Max has dreamed of for years since leaving HB for school and work.

Max is fighting hard for his recovery. We would be so grateful if we could ensure his access to the best care so he can get as far in his recovery as humanly possible, and be able to return home to live his fullest life doing what he loves.