User:Bambinonoir

Bambino Noir is a free-lance writer, editor, researcher and former Jazz DJ. After graduating from the now-extinct progressive high school, Hawthorne School in Washington, D.C. in 1966, he attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, receiving a B.A. degree in Philosophy and English. The following year he pursued a post-graduate program in French literature and Philosophy at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-En-Provence, France, receiving a Certificate of Higher European Studies in 1971, and returned to France to study Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg in 1973-74. He also pursued graduate work in Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, receiving his Ph.D. in 1978. Subsequently he received an M.A. degree in English and American Literature from Penn State University. He has taught and tutored writing and philosophy periodically at the main campus and four branch campuses of Penn State. He co-founded and was the National Director for twelve years of Trans-Species Unlimited,a national animal rights group, and served as the Publications Director for three years of Organizations United for the Environment. He has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals and scores of editorials and op-ed pieces in major newspapers. He has also conducted hundreds of radio and TV interviews, including appearances on “Good Morning America” and “The Today Show,” and has been quoted in Time magazine, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and other major dailies. He continues to be politically engaged in opposing American imperialism and exploitation, and in fighting for social justice, human rights and animal rights. He has been married twice and by choice has no children. He has travelled widely to more than 30 countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Mexico and Canada. His primary life interests have been writing, photography, cinema, literature, jazz, vegan cooking, running, hiking, bicycling, travel, meditation, yoga, and café sitting.