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UPDATE: This account is in the process of being merged with User:Aharon. (See below for details on this alternate account.)
Every now and then someone wonders why I have an alternate account named 'Aharon'. So here's why.
My first Wikipedia account dates from way back in January 2004 and was named 'Aharon' after my first name. (Hi!) At that time, there was no single account management structure in place between all of the Wikimedia Foundation's sites. When that account structure did manifest, my user account at the Wikimedia Commons was joined to Wikipedia. That's pretty much the whole story behind my having an alternative account name.
There was a little bit of confusion with my logging in under one or the other account names in 2011-12, mainly due to both account names being preserved in my password manager. But since then, I don't think I've logged in under that account, so for whatever it's worth, 'Aharon' is less an alternative account and more of a deprecated account. The alternative account template was added in October 2011 on the advice of Have mörser, will travel. (see here for that conversation.) I didn't really ever look into closing 'Aharon' since I contributed CC BY-SA licensed content under it and want to preserve my attribution, at the very least for the archival record. If there is some way of merging 'Aharon' with this account without losing my connection to the content produced through it, then I'd be totally into that.
But there's more to me than old wikipedia accounts.
If you're interested in reading about my work on the free-culture movement as it relates to open-source religion, there's an interview with me in the Atlantic Magazine from 2012. You can read the interview here. There's some other mention of my work in Ha'aretz and Tablet Magazine.
I have a Masters degree in community planning (UC/DAAP 2004) and another in Jewish education (JTS/Davidson 2013). I've written a book on the development history of the neighborhood of Bond Hill, and enjoy spending time in dusty archives trying to construct histories from what seems to be suggested by primary source records. Occasionally, I enjoy working as an environmental educator, where I love to share what I've learned in forests and other open classrooms. I am an experiential educator and am interested in the efficacy of exercises and activities for manifesting transformative experiences. (For example, roleplaying and other open ended games.) In college, I was a DJ at WKDU and WHRW, programming blocks of ambient, space, drone, and minimalist music and often doing live mixing. I love the art of assemblage and it's informed a great deal of my experience and interest in open-source culture and Open Content licensing.
If you'd like to ever read some papers I've written, take a look at what I have online at academia.edu. (All those papers are shared with a CC BY-SA 4.0 International license.)
Feel free to send me a kind message over on my talk page. I usually respond within 24-48 hours. Thanks for reading :)