Text Box:  Dwayne Hunn, Ph.D.
359 Jean St. Mill Valley, CA 94941    415-383-7880, cell 415-419-4380

 

Education

St. Ignatius High School, Cleveland, Ohio. 

St. Joseph's College, Indiana, BA, Political Science/Economics.  Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. 

Peace Corps Training, Vermont, South Bronx, & Columbia University -- Rural Construction & Urban Community Development.

San Francisco State.  MA (ABD) Broadcast Journalism.

Claremont Graduate University.  (Lincoln Fellowship), Public Policy, Finance, and Administration MA, Ph.D. Government 1984.  Who's Who in California, 1986.

 

Peace Corps

Urban community development volunteer in Worli Chawls slums of Mumbhai (Bombay).  Work included involving richest class students of prestigious John Connon School in work, teaching and building programs with orphans, homeless, paraplegics, birth control clinics.  Ambassador Cheater Bowls visited my model programs. 

Teaching

Six + years of teaching at high school, college, and Owner Builder Center levels.  Reported by high school students to have twice been voted Teacher of Year, but administration cancelled awarding.  In tenure year, a John Bircher influenced administration tried to fire me.  Reinstated and reputed to have been only the third teacher in California history to win a non-tenured dismissal case.

People’s Lobby, Executive Director      www.PeoplesLobby.us 

Chief lieutenant to People’s Lobby Inc. (PLI) founders Ed and Joyce Koupal,  a political crusading organization that created laws through the initiative process and birthed and funded today’s National Initiative Movement.  People's Lobby's 1972 Clean Environment Initiative.  Eighteen state Western Bloc Nuclear Moratorium campaigns.  Northern California Director of People's Lobby's winning 1974 Political Reform Initi­ative, establishing the California’s Fair Political Practices Commission.  Initiated American-Soviet Peace Corps (ASPC) Congressional Proposal.  Worked closely with Sergei Aviazan of the Soviet Consulate.  Then Congresswoman Boxer introduced the ASPC proposal as HR 1807 in the 1989 Congressional session. 

Helped develop the National Initiative for Democracy (NI4D) movement, which stemmed from PLI’s 1977 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on establishing a National Initiative Process.  Field Director of NI4D 2002 kickoff campaign in Maine.  Pressing former Senator Mike Gravel’s and his organizations to pay back substantial loans PLI made to NI4D organizations,

Wrote, sponsored, and continue educating and lobbying for passage of People’s Lobby’s 1) American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals, which Congresswoman Woolsey offered to introduce in the 111th Congress; and 2) and Fair Tax Bracket Reinstitution Act (FTBRA).  Key AWSC proposed bill is at www.WorldServiceCorps.us & http://www.worldservicecorps.us/world%20service%20key%20proposal%202yr%20volunteer.htm If passed as written, the AWSC will be among the most significant legislation passed in decades.  For video overviews click to Comcast Cable Local Edition's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMVeRVTvm4 or Mel Presents at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5412649329836782026

 
Politics campaigning

Took over, reformed the regional Democratic Party apparatus, and then directed Senator McGovern's San Gabriel Valley Presidential Campaign.  Orchestrated outdoor rally for 15,000 for McGovern’s speech, reportedly largest park gathering in West Covina’s history.

Directed Friends of Solar Village Referendum Campaign for Novato’s Hamilton Air Force Base.  Worked with State Architect Sim Vander Ryn and Pedestrian Pocket originator Peter Calthorpe.  Consulting work on land development, housing, transit solutions revolves around public education and politics.

Rubelian Castle Building,                             

One of blessed core of Pharm hands who built a 7+ story “impossible” castle out of collapsed freeway lumber, rocks, bottles, used telephone poles, junk, etc..  in a suburban community.  Glendora Historic landmark Rubelian stories http://dwaynehunn.biz/rubelia.htm  & pictures http://film.rubelcastle.com.

Recycled Building Company                                                                                  

Peace Corps buddy and I formed Recycled Building Company in California’s North Bay that allowed me to hold on to some fixer-uppers as rentals.

California Conservation Corps   (CCC)

Youngest management member of Governor Jerry Brown's CCC start-up team.  Environmental and skills training, project development and oversight, counseling, headquarters and in-center management, statewide project analysis.  After turning around the CCC’s model Escondido Center, which was in riot mode, a poorly chosen management team tried to fire me prior to expiration of my probationary employee period.  I won the case, reinstatement, back pay, and helped replace the Peter Principled management team, while being told I was only the third in California history to win a probationary dismissal case.

 Affordable Housing production                                       

Helped Novato Ecumenical Housing (now North Bay Family Homes) grow from 1/2 paid staff to 14-paid employee corporation.  Assistant Executive Director/Director, Research & Development Director, Project Manager for Skylark Meadows, the 1986 $4.1 million affordable housing project set California low income ownership record; key role in establishing our innovative equity share program, for which FANNIE MAE awarded us and used as its national model; produced business plan and assisted in establishing Solano County's Affordable Housing Program; public outreach included over 100 published articles, radio and television appearances to gain community and political support for various projects.  Some details at www.dwaynehunn.biz/consulted_on website

Completed several Habitat Builds, including Sri Lanka, Fiji, and Georgia.  Participated in Oakland and Santa Rosa Habitat day builds and two New Orleans Habitat days in 2010..

 

Transportation, energy conservation, regional planning, etc.

Executive Director of North Bay Transportation Management Asso­ciation.  Established programs regarding land use,  jobs/housing balance, traffic, transportation, and environmental issues.  Erased $40,000 hard debt.  Produced North Bay region's largest conference dealing with above issues.  Over 400 attendees spent the day engaged with 20 regional leaders on sensible planning options.                                                 

Suntrain Inc.  One of six founding corporate members.  Suntrain Inc. was and is a California rail based trans­portation system merging state of the art technology to provide long distance business, commuter, and recreational travel.  Train interiors allow quick conversion to limited freight rail services.  Van pick-up and rental cars provided as part of all-inclusive ticketed trip from home-station-destination-home.  Public private joint venture intended to spur environmentally sound pedestrian pocket development along rail lines.  http://www.dwaynehunn.biz/transitsolutions.htm

 

Land development, consulting, public education

Worked closely as crewmember with mentor and friend, Glen Speer, in establishing his then Lollop Construction Company in St. John, Virgin Islands.  Today his St. John's Mongoose Junction is one of St. John's favorite tourist destinations.

Hands-on partner in attempted development of Posada del Sol. a model solar energy life estate retirement community, on 33-acre San Rafael parcel adjacent to opposed mayor’s home.            

Primary consultant to partnership and individuals owning the 86-acre Canalways and other nearby parcels East San Rafael.  Involved in helping shepherd development of Storage USA, Bulk Retail, Marriott Hotel, etc.  and dealing with city and county General Plan updates.

In initial stages of possible involvement with trying to turn decommissioned Skaggs Island Naval Base from being flooded to using veterans to rebuild it as a Veterans Village.  www.VeteransVillages.org and energy farm. 

Rehabilitating stroke stricken, vegetative mom.

The nurses said, “Find a home for her.  She’ll be a vegetable the rest of her life.”  Working my mom back to a semblance of independence were the hardest, most draining, most loving seven years of my life.  http://dwaynehunn.biz/mom.htm

 
News, journalism, books

Public Affairs Director for Television Center at San Francisco State.  Produced and hosted thirty-six 30-minute television & radio public affairs shows.  News writer for Deer Communication/All News Cable TV attempt. Some writings at http://www.worldservicecorps.us/coverage.htm  Books:  Co-authored oRDINARY pEOPLE dOING THE eXTRAORDINARY, tHE sTORY OF Ed and Joyce Koupal and the Initiative process.   Ralph Nader listed this book among his Top Ten Books to Read for 2009.  Upcoming book is  Every Town Needs a Castle, especially when built of junk and spunk, December 2010.

 

 

If six pictures are not showing, go to http://dwaynehunn.biz/consulted%20on.htm .  Or try http://dwaynehunn.biz/Resume08.doc .