James Neal

My background and experience consists of volunteer service in the Peace Corps in Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo); graduate courses in anthropology; publicity, marketing, editorial, and sales roles in academic and scholarly publishing; public school teaching; experience in public relations, and project management and web design in user experience design. My personal strengths are public speaking and written communication, information and digital literacy skills, people skills, and a devotion to community and humanism. I am a recent MLS graduate of the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool and reside in Silver Spring, Maryland. My career goals include working for an academic/research library in collections and acquisitions. I am originally from Columbia, SC and graduated W.J. Keenan High School. I graduated Morehouse College with a B.A. in Political Science and a concentration in English. I served in the Peace Corps in Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) as an agricultural extension agent. I did two years of graduate course work at the University of Michigan in anthropology. For six years I lived in the Cambridge/Somerville area of Massachusetts while working for several book publishing houses. I most recently lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico and have now found home finally in the DC Metro area where I intend to be based for the rest of my life ...