Timothy Freeman Cook

After realizing I couldn't make anything, I took time to learn how to build, to program, to grow. I'm now working to reform higher education in the space between tradition and progress.

I am currently the Founding Director of the Saxifrage School, a higher education laboratory working to lower costs, re-think the campus, and reconcile theory and practice. We hope students can graduate without debt while learning how to make what is valuable and question the value of what is made.

I am a Spark Fellow, conducting a series of workshops called "Why School? How?" that engage youth in the conversation on the future of their schools. I'm trying to compile research on school culture and youth agency in the ed. reform discourse.

I just started to record a personal blog ofideas for Pittsburgh and am trying to act on them.

Pittsburgh is trying to change it's Food Truck laws. I helped start the coalition to make this happen.

Pittsburgh's finest urban farm/garden organization, Grow Pittsburgh, asked me to join their Board of Directors. They do amazing work.

The rest of the time, I am an impatient gardener, a steady cyclist, and a distracted writer. Pittsburgh is a very important place.