Tom is an educator activist based in Chicago. He is a creativity champion and defender of the commons. He has taught classes on creativity, civic engagement and public policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Loyola University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, the university of Illinois at Chicago and DePaul University. He was an organizer for the No Games Chicago campaign to defeat the 2016 Olympic bid. In 2010 Tom was the Green Party candidate for Cook County Board President. He is working to launch a new nonprofit social enterprise, The CivicLab, a store front space for educators and activists to collaborate and build tools for civic engagement and community improvement - http://www.civiclab.us.

Tom is an educator activist based in Chicago. He is a creati ...