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Dan is a senior policy advisor for Project Drawdown where he works to bridge the gap between science and policy as well as multidisciplinary solutions for climate change and poverty alleviation. He also manages Street Civics, a leading resource for activists, organizers, and advocates.Previously, he worked for the American Friends Service Committee where he advocated for peace, humanitarian cooperation, and international development in Asia with an emphasis on US-North Korea and US-China relations.He has co-founded and led several coalitions including the Korea Peace Network and the Lift Sanctions, Save Lives network; through these groups, Dan helped spearhead the first pieces of legislation calling for a formal end to the Korean War, large-scale sanctions reform efforts, and major collective actions - coordinating over 110 organizations and representing over 65 million supporters. Dan has been published extensively and has appeared in a wide array of US and international media outlets such as the Associated Press, NPR, The Weather Channel, illuminem, NHK, the Washington Times, NBC, Reuters, the New York Times, the Nation, NK News, and many more.From 2014 – 2015, he worked for World Learning where he administered the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). He also served in the Peace Corps and Peace Corps Response assisting national ministries with local education programs in Turkmenistan from 2008 to 2010 and in St Lucia from 2013 to 2014.Dan worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Minnesota House of Representatives, and Congresswoman Betty McCollum early in his career. He received a Paul D. Coverdell Fellowship from 2011 to 2013 where he provided nonprofits like Democracy North Carolina with policy analysis on local issues such as voting rights. He holds a Master’s in public policy and certificate in international development from Duke University in addition to a Bachelor’s in global studies, cultural studies, and linguistics from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

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