User:Acarvin

Andy Carvin is Program Director at the Center for Media & Community in Newton, Massachusetts. He manages the Digital Divide Network, an online community for activists from around the world working to bridge the digital divide. He is the author of the pioneering website EdWeb: Exploring Technology & School Reform (1994), one of the first websites to advocate the use of the Web in education. Andy is also the founder of WWWEDU, the Internet's oldest email forum regarding the Web in education, and DIGITALDIVIDE, the Internet's premiere discussion group for digital divide issues. He also served as creator and moderator of SEPT11INFO, one of the most successful online communities created in the hours following terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

Andy was named in 1999 by eSchoolNews as a member of the Impact 30, an annual list highlighting 30 of the most influential people in education technology. He is a former board member of the Consortium for School Networking and the Asia/Pacific Center for Justice and Peace, a consortium of NGOs that promotes democracy, free speech and freedom of religion across Asia.

Andy has been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Educational Review, Education Week, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Wired, San Jose Mercury News, The Industry Standard and the second edition of The Internet Unleashed, published by Sams/MacMillan. Before coming to EDC, Andy was senior associate at the Benton Foundation and program officer at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Andy received a bachelors in rhetoric and a masters in telecommunications from Northwestern University, where he received the prestigious Annenberg/Washington Fellowship. Andy has traveled extensively, documenting his adventures in online travelogues and through his blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. Andy also publishes a photo blog called photo.spotlight, featuring photos they've taken from around the world.

In January 1999, Andy premiered From Sideshow to Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust, a virtual history of the Khmer Rouge regime and collection of survivor accounts.Andy is an avid amateur genealogist; his use of DNA testing to explore his family's lineage was profiled in US News and World Report. In 2002, he and his wife produced "Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance," an independent documentary that has aired worldwide on the National Geographic Channel.