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Biography for Todd Wolfson
Todd Wolfson received a dual Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in the fields of Anthropology and Education and is joining the Rutgers University Faculty as an Assistant Professor in Journalism and Media Studies in the Fall of 2009. His research is focused on the role of new technologies in local, national and global social movements. Todd is also one of the co-founders of Philadelphia's Media Mobilizing Project (MMP), which is an organization dedicated to using new communication tools to organize around issues of poverty, education and housing. Based on MMP's model, in the last year they have received local and national press exposure and grants from the Knight Foundation, The Social Science Research Council, The Media and Democracy Fund, The Media Justice Fund and the Media and Democracy Coalition. Prior to this work, Todd lived in sub-Saharan Africa and worked on issues of education, development, and refugee asylum.