The Education of Jared Dunn
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey

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I'm 34, grew up in central Illinois, and went to school around here at UIUC. I moved back here 2 years ago planning to launch a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing web activists to address digital divide and community development issues on the local level. However, the economic crash intervened, and I went to plan B, which was freelancing and working with local and regional nonprofits to help them use the web and social media more effectively. My biggest project has been goodWORKSconnect.org, which is a regional social networking site and knowledge base designed to foster collaboration within the nonprofit community in downstate Illinois. I've since completed my degree at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois with a concentration in Community Informatics, and plan to continue doing this sort of work in a library or other public service context.

Before my latest endeavors, I lived in Boston for five years after college and worked as a neuroscience lab manager for one of the local mega-research universities. My training is in the biological sciences, but I got hooked on the web early on, and I've intermittently done freelance and personal web design and writing/editing work for the past 15 years or so, and am now looking to take my passions for this medium and for civic life and make them into a vocation.

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The Martian Chronicles
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It's always just a bit dangerous to re-read one of my adolescent touchstones. I've found that far too often, they haven't held up well in the cold light of my adult sensibilities and allegiances. And I was even more apprehensive about Bradb...

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