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David Allyn
Born (1969-04-30) April 30, 1969 (age 55)
EducationGeorgetown Day School, Brown University (BA), Harvard University (PhD)
Occupation(s)Author, Educator, Consultant

David Allyn (born April 30, 1969) is an American author, educator, and consultant to nonprofit organizations.[1][2]

Personal life

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Allyn is the stepson of the late John Wallach, founder of the nonprofit organization Seeds of Peace.[3] Allyn graduated from the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. He holds a BA from Brown University and a PhD from Harvard University. From 1996–1999, he taught at Princeton University. In 2014 he was named CEO of The Oliver Scholars Program. In February 2016 he was elected to the board of trustees of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).[1]

Books and articles

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Allyn is the author of four books, including Make Love, Not War[4][5] and I Can't Believe I Just Did That,[6][7][8] and has served as a faculty member at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at Columbia University at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.[9] His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and other publications. While an undergraduate at Brown University, Allyn co-authored a book on transferring from one college to another. He and his co-author (later wife) were profiled in The Washington Post and featured on CNN. He has also published articles in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,[10] The Journal of American Studies,[11] Teachers College Record,[12] The Advocate, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. As an expert on the 1960s, Allyn has appeared on Vh1,[13] The History Channel,[14] and CNN.[15]

Plays

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Allyn's play, Buying In, was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. His play, Commencement, was selected for the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.[16] and won a Writer's Digest award.[17] His play Punctuated Equilibrium received a staged reading by the Hangar Theatre Lab in Ithaca, New York.[18] His play Writers Colony appeared in the Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City,[19] and Baptizing Adam[20] won the James H. Wilson Award for Best-Full Length Play. According to The New York Times, Allyn is "a wicked observer of self-conscious people at their less than best."[9]

Concepts

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Allyn's original concepts include "strategic empathy,"[21] denoting the deliberate use of perspective-taking to achieve certain desired ends; "mission mirroring,"[22] the phenomenon that occurs when mission-based organizations become plagued by the very problems they were created to solve; and "sexual optimism (pessimism),"[23] the view of human sexuality as benign (or dangerous).

References

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  1. ^ a b "Staff – Oliver Scholars". Oliverscholars.org. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Interview with David Allyn, CEO of Oliver Scholars". Resident Community. 2017-07-06. Archived from the original on 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
  3. ^ "Janet Wallach | Seeds of Peace". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  4. ^ Tiger, Lionel (March 19, 2000). "Turned In, Turned On". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
  5. ^ "Book Reviews". Peace & Change. 27 (4): 641–667. 2002. doi:10.1111/1468-0130.00249. ISSN 1468-0130.
  6. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: I Can't Believe I Just Did That: How (Seemingly) Small Embarrassments Can Wreak Havoc in Your Life-And What You Can Do to Put a Stop to Them by David Allyn". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  7. ^ Parmar, Neil (May 1, 2004). "Self-Conscious? Get Over It". Psychology Today. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
  8. ^ Gizowska, Eva (May 9, 2004). "Mind I'm so sorry, but do you mind reading this? Are you self-conscious, easily embarrassed, endlessly apologising?". The Independent on Sunday. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
  9. ^ a b Morris, Bob (January 11, 2004). "The Age of Dissonance; Red-Faced to Meet You". The New York Times. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
  10. ^ [1][permanent dead link‍]
  11. ^ David Allyn, "Private Acts/Public Policy: Alfred Kinsey, the American Law Institute and the Privatization of American Sexual Morality," Journal of American Studies, Volume 30, Issue 03, December 1996, pp 405–428
  12. ^ Volume 107, Number 7 (2005)
  13. ^ "Sex: The Revolution". Variety.com. 2008-05-11.
  14. ^ [2] [dead link‍]
  15. ^ ""The Seventies" Battle of the Sexes (TV Episode 2015)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  16. ^ "Baltimore Sun: Baltimore breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic". Baltimoresun.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  17. ^ "2009 Stage Play Script Winners". Writersdigest.com. 2009-10-16.
  18. ^ "Welcome". Hangartheatre.org. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  19. ^ Haagensen, Erik (July 15, 2009). "Writers Colony". Backstage. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
  20. ^ Weber, Bruce (August 30, 2002). "A Study of Lonely Souls, One of Them With a Gun". The New York Times. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
  21. ^ "The Tao of Doing Good (SSIR)". ssir.org. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  22. ^ Allyn, David (2010). "Mission Mirroring: Understanding Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations". Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 40 (4): 762–769. doi:10.1177/0899764010370869. S2CID 145136327.
  23. ^ Allyn, David (2000). Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History. New York: Little, Brown.
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