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Senior Associate, Communications Policy
Benton Foundation
Andy Carvin, a 16-year veteran of the Internet, is
Senior Associate at the Benton Foundation's Communications Policy Program
in Washington DC. Andy is one of the coordinators of the Digital Divide Network, a
national coalition of high tech corporations and nonprofit foundations
working to find solutions to the digital divide.
Andy is the author of the pioneering online
education resource EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform. Named by
NetGuide magazine as "One of the Top 50 Places to Go Online,"
EdWeb was one of the first websites to advocate the use of the World Wide
Web in education. Andy is the founder and moderator of WWWEDU, the
Internet's oldest and largest email forum on the role of the Web in
education, and DIGITALDIVIDE, the Internet's premiere discussion group for
digital divide issues. Andy has been featured in numerous publications,
including The New York Times, Harvard Educational Review, Education
Week, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Wired,
and the second edition of The Internet Unleashed, published by
Sams/MacMillan. He also contributes a periodic column on education policy
issues for Lightspan.com. Before coming to the Benton Foundation, Andy
served as New Media Program Officer for the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, where he developed Internet-related grant programs for the
public broadcasting community.
Andy was named in 1999 by eSchoolNews magazine
as a member of the Impact 30, an annual list highlighting 30 of the most
influential people in education technology today. He is a member of the
Board of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), which advocates
policies regarding the role of information technology in schools. From
1999 to 2001, he sat on the Board of Directors for the Asia/Pacific Center
for Justice and Peace, a consortium of NGOs that promotes democracy, free
speech and freedom of religion across Asia.
Andy holds a bachelor of science in rhetoric and religion and a master of
arts in telecommunications from Northwestern University, where he received
the prestigious Annenberg/Washington Graduate Fellowship. While living in
Illinois, he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Chicago area arts
weekly, Art+Performance magazine. In his free time, Andy has
traveled extensively around the world and has written about his adventures
in popular online travelogues. In January 1999, Andy premiered "From
Sideshow to Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust," a
historical collection of accounts from survivors of the Khmer Rouge
regime. Most recently, Andy published his latest travel journal,
"Anatolian Fortnight: A Cross-Country Turkish Roadtrip from Istanbul
to Mount Ararat." Andy is also an avid amateur genealogist; his
successful use of DNA testing to explore his family's lineage was profiled
in a January 2001 cover story of US News and World Report.
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