Who is this guy?
Hey. Thanks for checking out my blog. I like to say I have intellectual Tourette's: I love a wide range of eclectic topics, including:
- social capital meets web 2.0 (Veblen, Bourdieu, and whuffie)
- data mashups, APIs, and computational social science
- time & product management, efficiency (Getting Things Done)
- marketing, word-of-mouth, crowdsourcing
- web 2.0 meets CRM
- social entrepreneurship
- venture capital
- liberal democratic theory and pluralism
- moderate Islam and the future of democracy
- conservative political philosophy
- civil society (Tocqueville and Nisbet)
- civic engagement
The formal deal: Evan Baehr loves people and ideas... and works to bring them together at the intersection of technology, politics, and venture capital. He is currently an MBA student at Harvard Business School. In his free time he's working on a few projects, including a business plan related to relationship management tools, Ideas@Work, a new initiative promoting free enterprise and individual liberty at HBS, and IdeaStorm at MIT, a fast-paced, lightly moderated, high energy brainstorm session.
Baehr graduated cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Princeton Tory, president of the College Republicans, cofounder of Princeton Votes, president of Students for Academic Freedom, cofounder of Princetonians in the Nation’s Service, and the Republican candidate for Princeton City Council. Baehr later served as a legislative aide for foreign affairs to Rep. Frank Wolf and as the co-staff director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, where he helped found the Task Force on International Religious Freedom. Baehr recently graduated summa cum laude from Yale Divinity School, where he studied ethics, law, and Islam, and co-founded the Yale Forum on Faith and Politics, host of Voices & Votes. Baehr was the recipient of the James Madison Program Fellowship, the Center for Human Values Fellowship, Princeton’s Lilly Endowment Thesis Prize, the Civitas Fellowship from the Center for Public Justice, and Yale’s William F. Burger Fellowship. Baehr has also worked for the American Enterprise Institute, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Baehr serves on the board of the Rivendell Institute and the Heritage Foundation's New York Committee. His wife, Kristina, is a recent graduate of Yale Law School and is currently a fellow with the Carter Center of Liberia.