Hometown: Santa Clarita, CA

Adam Barr graduated from the University of California-Davis in 2005 with a degree in Political Science and minors in Sociology and Womens Studies. While there he was a founding member and president of Men Acting Against Rape and served as a senator in the student government. This member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars also served as the undergraduate representative on the Campus Council for Information Technology, which is an administrative advisory committee that makes technology recommendations to the Chancellors Office. In this capacity he was able to raise $24,000 to expand wireless internet access on the campus.  All of this was done while simultaneously working in the Information Technology Department tutoring professors on how to implement educational technology in the classroom.

During his first summer, Adam interned in the Office of Community Services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where his primary work focused on welfare reform and finding ways to reinvigorate the economies of the Black Belt region of the South. His second year was spent at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University researching the effect of service learning on civic engagement in college students.

Adam currently works at the Institute and is the President of the UC Davis Alumni DC Chapter. He will be returning to school in 2008 to get his MBA. He hopes to become a U.S. Congressman or Senator in the future.