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Tom Head
Tom Head is a freelance writer and activist. He is author or co-author of 24 nonfiction books on a wide range of topics, including Civil Liberties: A Beginner’s Guide (Oneworld, 2009) and Conversations with Carl Sagan (University Press of Mississippi, 2006). He currently serves as About.com Guide to Civil Liberties, and maintains an irregularly-updated blog called the Mississippi Human Rights Report.
Head holds a B.A. in liberal arts from Excelsior College and an M.A. in humanities from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is finishing up a Ph.D. in the history of ideas through Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, which he expects to complete in 2010. He has also taken graduate-level coursework at Mississippi College (in counseling psychology) and Spring Hill College (in theological studies).
He is Mississippi NOW‘s Executive Vice-President, Secretary/treasurer of Jackson NOW, former Jackson representative for Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), a board member of the Mississippi ACLU, and director of communications for Unity Mississippi. As a teenager, he served as central branch treasurer of the Mississippi Poetry Society, volunteered at South Hills Public Library, and worked in the first editions room at Choctaw Books. As a child he socialized primarily at the State Street YWCA, which has since been converted into the Old Capitol Inn. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jackson, and a former usher and altar guild member at St. Andrews Cathedral.
He lives in Jackson, and (with the exception of two years he spent in a Jackson suburb as a teenager) has never lived anywhere else. He is one of the original JackBloggers, and still writes occasionally for the Jackson Free Press.
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