Click to Download High Resolution VersionJared Duval is a fellow at Demos and the author of Next Generation Democracy: What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change (November 2010, Bloomsbury). As the inaugural fellow of Demos’s Emerging Voices Initiative, Jared has been helping to build this first-of-its-kind program for young authors since 2008.

Prior to joining Demos, Jared served as the National Director of the Sierra Student Coalition (SSC), the national student chapter of the Sierra Club and the largest student environmental organization in America. During this time he helped build the Energy Action Coalition and the Campus Climate Challenge campaign, serving as the effort’s co-chair for two years. Jared currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Orton Family Foundation and he is a former member of the Sierra Club’s national Board of Directors.

A recipient of the David Brower Youth Award and the Udall and Truman scholarships, he graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 2005. Jared is now at the University of Cambridge for an MPhil degree in Modern Society and Global Transformations. In the Fall of 2012, he will return to the U.S. for the M.P.A program at  Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs.