Andy Carvin

Current

• Senior Strategist, Social Media Desk at National Public Radio

Past

• Program Director at EDC Center for Media & Community
• Senior Associate at Benton Foundation
• New Media Program Officer at Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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Education

• Northwestern University
• Northwestern University

Recommended

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Connections

379 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• Twitter

Andy Carvin’s Summary

Andy Carvin is senior strategist at NPR's social media desk. He's the former director of the Digital Divide Network (http://www.digitaldivide.net), an online community of 10,000+ activists in 140 countries working to find solutions to the digital divide.

Andy is the author of the pioneering online education resource EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform (http://www.edwebproject.org), launched in 1994. 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 examining digital divide issues. Andy and his work have been featured in numerous media outlets, including CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone and Wired.

In October 2005, MIT Technology Review magazine named him to their 2005 TR35 list, an annual list of 35 of the world's leading high-tech innovators under the age of 35. In December 2001, Andy was named by District Administration magazine as one of America's top 25 edtech advocates. Andy received similar honors from eSchoolNews in 1999 when they named him a member of its Impact 30 list of edtech leaders. Washingtonian Magazine named him one of the DC area's "tech titans" in May 2009.


Andy holds a bachelor of science in rhetoric and a master of arts in telecommunications policy from Northwestern University, where he received the prestigious Annenberg/Washington graduate fellowship. Andy has published extensively through his popular blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth (http://www.andycarvin.com), where he also experiments with photo blogging, podcasting and video blogging.

Andy Carvin’s Specialties:

online communities
Web 2.0
digital divide
media literacy
blogging
podcasting
video blogging
telecommunications policy
education technology
citizen journalism

Andy Carvin’s Experience

• Senior Strategist, Social Media Desk

  National Public Radio

  (Non-Profit; Broadcast Media industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Working to enhance the relationship that NPR has with the public through the development of online and offline community engagement initiatives.

• Program Director

  EDC Center for Media & Community

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  February 2004 — June 2006 (2 years 5 months)

  Director of the Digital Divide Network (www.digitaldivide.net), the Internet's largest online community for bridging the digital divide; manager of E-Government for All, an initiative promoting equitable access to e-government; promotes blogging and podcasting as tools for civic engagement; represents EDC at high-level functions related to the digital divide, media, Web 2.0 and Internet culture in the US and abroad.

• Senior Associate

  Benton Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  September 1999 — February 2004 (4 years 6 months)

  Coordinated the foundation's policy and research work related to education technology, telecommunications policy and the digital divide. Oversaw the foundation's editorial publications, including the Communications Headlines news service.

• New Media Program Officer

  Corporation for Public Broadcasting

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  June 1994 — August 1999 (5 years 3 months)

  Developed and coordinated the corporation's Internet-related grant programs, including the K12 Internet Testbed and the Civic Networking Grants.

Andy Carvin’s Education

• Northwestern University

  Masters , Telecom Science, Management and Policy , 1993 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Interdisciplinary masters program on communications policy. Recipient of the annual Annenberg/Washington post-graduate fellowship; 3.9 gradepoint average.

• Northwestern University

  BS , Communications Studies , 1989 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Communications Studies major with a focus on rhetoric; minor in religion.

Additional Information

Andy Carvin’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• Twitter

Andy Carvin’s Interests:

blogging, podcasting, videoblogging, travel writing, photography

Andy Carvin’s Groups:

Digital Divide Network, World Summit on the Information Society Civil Society Delegation, Association for Community Networking

•    Online News Association
•    NPR Digital Think

Andy Carvin’s Honors:

One of Washingtonian Magazines 2009 Tech Titans
Winner of 2005 MIT Technology Review TR35 Award, given to the 35 leading high-tech innovators under age 35
Recipient, 2001 Top 25 Education Technology Advocates, District Administration Magazine
Recipient, eSchoolNews Impact 30 list of leading technology innovators and advocates
Recipient, 1994 Annenberg/Washington Post-Graduate Fellowship

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