About Me

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Last updated on March 7, 2012.

George, from the Ancient Greek γεωργός “farmer” or “earth-worker,” which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος. The word Γεωργος is a compound word, formed by the words Ge (earth, soil) and ergon (worker).

Welcome!

I am a political and policy communications consultant in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and I live in Springfield, VA with my beautiful girlfriend Emily (and our dog, Juno). I specialize in political, policy, and business analysis, and communications strategy.

Since moving to the Washington area in 2009, I have worked for a global trade association of IT companies, TechAmerica, conducting analysis of government markets for homeland security, defense, and federal civilian procurement and acquisition, supply chain, sourcing, and contracting policies. I have also worked on transparency and open government issues and, on the commercial side of policy, on privacy and smart electric grids.

I have also worked for the Cato Institute, an internationally-renowned public policy research organization, where I was responsible for integrating strategic communications, marketing, and development using new media tactics.

I most recently served as Senior Campaign Manager, then Director of Intel/PR, at CRAFT | Media/Digital, a cutting-edge political consulting firm, the first in Washington to marry traditional and new media.

You can read more about my professional life — including lots of nice things people have said about me that I probably don’t deserve — at my LinkedIn profile.

In addition to blogging here, I contribute to United Liberty and On the Forecheck, and formerly to The Hockey Writers, where I blogged about the Nashville Predators and other hockey-related topics of interest to me. My political and policy observations have been cited and/or featured in The Atlantic, POLITICO, Instapundit, Hot Air, Crooks & Liars, Think Progress, techPresident, Nashville Post Politics, Memeorandum, and Linkiest, and my hockey musings have been cited on Yahoo’s Puck Daddy blog.

I am also on the faculty of the Leadership Institute’s online activism school, where I have trained activists in blogging, social media, and how to use these tools in political activism.

Personal Notes

My intellectual passions include voter psychology, labor and welfare economics, regulatory and legal policy, project management and organizational analysis, institutional design, public choice and game theories, political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and the effects of new media on American politics and policy making.

I am a libertarian. I vote regularly in municipal, state, and federal elections, and I encourage other people to do the same. I have many ideas about the proper role of government in the lives of individuals, and I voraciously consume lots of literature about public policy and political economy. I do not agree with everything I read. I am always learning and reflecting upon and examining my predispositions.

I am not a religious person, and I do not belong to a church. I believe that there are things about the universe I could never possibly understand or explain, and try to remain open-minded on matters of faith.

I speak languages other than English, and I have traveled outside the United States many times in my life for various purposes. Seeing different parts of the world and experiencing different cultures of people have both had distinguishable, transformational effects on me.

I am the son and grandson of veterans of the United States Navy, Merchant Marines, and Air Force, and I value their service and sacrifice. I am also the son and grandson of teachers, and I highly value education.

If you asked my best friends if I could be devoted to anything more than politics and public policy, they would no doubt fall into two descriptive camps – those who speak of my undying devotion to Star Wars, and those who have borne witness to my borderline obsessive and obnoxious passion for the Nashville Predators. My favorite genres of music are blues and classic rock, and I have been a Phish-head since the early 1990s.

I received bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and political science from Belmont University in my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee in 2009, and a master of public policy in advanced policy analysis from American University in Washington, DC in 2011.

Most importantly, I appreciate your readership, and I thank you for stopping by. Please subscribe to The Dangerous Servant via RSS, and come back often to chat with me — also check out my blogroll on the right side of this page. I highly recommend every blog/news site listed there, each for different reasons.

You can send tips or private correspondence to my email through the Contact page.