User:SeanBarney

My name is Sean Barney. I am a joint-degree student at the Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. After college, I worked as a speechwriter for Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ), when he ran for president, and as policy director to Governor Tom Carper (D-DE), when he ran for the United States Senate. I subsequently joined Senator-elect Carper's Washington, DC staff as a legislative assistant. After 9/11, I enlisted as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. I served a combat tour in Fallujah, Iraq in 2006 and was wounded in action there. After a year of recovery, I was medically retired from the Marine Corp, at which point I decided to return to school to study law and public policy.

As someone who, to be very honest, is not as digitally literate as I would like to be, I am currently taking a digital literacy class at the Kennedy School taught by Nicco Mele, webmaster for Governor Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. Central to Professor Mele's approach to boosting the digital literacy of his students is to encourage us to become active users of digital media, so it is at Professor Mele's prompting that I have set up this Wikipedia user account, making it possible for me to move from being a passive consumer of Wikipedia content to being an active editor of, and contributor to, that content.