Eryk Salvaggio

Writer, Social Media Manager, and Editor in San Francisco, California

Eryk Salvaggio

Writer, Social Media Manager, and Editor in San Francisco, California

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I am the Event and Social Communications Manager at Swissnex, an intercultural event and idea space operating within the Swiss Consulate in San Francisco.

I am unconventional thinker that merges creativity and strategy. Communication, community, and education inspire me.

As the Communications Manager of the Wiki Education Foundation, I was responsible for communicating the benefits of Wikipedia course assignments for higher ed instructors across the United States and Canada. I developed print and online training materials used by more than 4,000 university students. I've worked with instructors, students and community members to share their stories on the Foundation's website, and in publications such as The Washington Post, Vice's Motherboard, West Virginia Public Radio, The Los Angeles Times, and more.

I am most inspired by communicating across cultures. I have lived, worked, and studied on three continents. I've taught workshops about cross-cultural communication in Japan, studied leadership and the European Union in the Czech Republic, earned an MSc from the London School of Economics, and organized two art events for a music festival in Spain with thousands of attendees. I have a history in journalism, am a self-published author, and editor for a book published by Yale University Press.

Dubbed "The Harry Potter of the Digital Vanguard" at age 19 by the Dutch Press for my work with new media, I was a pioneer of the early "net.art" movement, presenting lectures and projects throughout Europe. I was the focus of a 2002 profile in The New York Times.

I graduated in 2014 from the London School of Economics with an MSc in Media and Communications (some papers are available here) and was a POLIS intern. I earned two BAs in Journalism and New Media at the University of Maine, with a minor in Psychology earned partially at Harvard University Extension. I've also studied International Relations and the EU in Prague at Charles University with the Global Institute for Leadership and Civic Development.

I was the online editor of the Bangor Daily News in 2010 before leaving to pursue international interests in Japan. There, I wrote a blog, This Japanese Life, which was profiled by The Japan Times in 2012 and was published in book form in 2013. While in Japan, I freelanced for The Japan Times and for KULTURAUSTAUSCH, the Journal of International Perspectives in Germany, and Fukuoka Now, a tri-lingual monthly magazine in Japan.

  • Education
    • London School of Economics and Political Science
    • University of Maine