Frank Barber

In 2007, I moved to Olympia with my family in order to work with Academic Computing at the Evergreen State College. The Academic Computing team supports the use of curricular technology by the Faculty and students at this public liberal-arts college in the Pacific Northwest.

Prior to working at Evergreen, I was a Systems Analyst in Emerging Technologies at Florida Community College at Jacksonville, a public institution which serves 50,000 – 70,000 students a year with four campuses, military education, and distance education programs based in Jacksonville, FL.

I hold two graduate degrees in Education, an English B.A. focused in media and propaganda studies, and have also taken graduate courses in non-profit management and undergraduate courses in programming.

I taught as a professor for about 7 years, including a stint at the Savannah College of Art and Design, before moving into IT work (primarily adapting emerging technologies to educational use). My transition from faculty to staff happened in Chicago, where I collaborated with multiple community arts non-profits and public schools through my work with the Office of Community Arts Partnership at Columbia College Chicago.

I am currently the on Board of Directors for the Olympia Film Society. I also host a weekly radio show on KAOS 89.3FM.