John Favini (he/him) is the Data Inclusion Specialist at OEDP and a Leading Edge Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies from 2023 to 2025. John is passionate about nurturing communities—be they political coalitions, research networks, or weekly potlucks—as an avenue for building social justice movements. He completed his PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he studied environmental movements in the US and Caribbean. Since, he has worked as a community organizer, museum educator, and mule tender. He lives in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and will talk your ear off about its environmental history, if you let him. You can find him at john@openenvironmentaldata.org.