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David Howard Lempert is an anthropologist, author, social entrepreneur, and development consultant. Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of

Though his work crosses many fields, he is known primarily as an educational innovator in the field of experiential education, and is seen as a modern Alexis de Tocqueville for his ethnographic work on legal and political systems that includes field work as the first U. Experiential education is a philosophy of education that focuses on the transactive process between teacher and student involved in direct experience with the learning environment S. anthropologist in urban Russia (coining the term Pepsi-stroika, and as a modern James Madison for his creative constitutional amendments that offer new ways of thinking about democracy in industrial societies. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending James Madison Jr (March 16 1751 – June 28 1836 was an American Politician, the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817 and one of the Founding His work on demographics and politics places him among modern neo-Malthusian social theorists. Demographics or demographic data refers to selected population characteristics as used in government Marketing or opinion research or the Demographic profiles Neo-malthusianism is a set of doctrines derived from Thomas Malthus 's theory that limited resources keep populations in check and reduce economic growth

He is a third cousin of the actors Fred Savage, Ben Savage, and Kayla Savage, a cousin of California Assemblyman Ted Lempert, and policy analyst Robert Lempert, and older sibling of sisters Marci Lempert Riley and Cheryl Lempert Cohen. Fredrick Aaron Savage (born July 9 1976) is an American Actor and television and Film director, perhaps best known for Bennett Joseph "Ben" Savage (born on September 13, 1980) is an American Film and TV actor and child star The California State Assembly is the Lower house of the California State Legislature.

Lempert was born in New York City on February 12, 1959, the 150th birthday of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, to parents of Polish-Ukrainian-Moldovan-Jewish and Hungarian-Lithuanian-Jewish descent. The City of New York Events 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 &ndash April 15 1865 the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal His first published piece, a quip in "Out of the Mouths of Babes", appeared in a national magazine when he was five. After starting school a year early and attending the Kinerit Day School for first grade, a private school teaching Hebrew and English, his family moved to Hartsdale, New York and he attended the Ardsley Schools. Hartsdale is a hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP located in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester County New York. He graduated from Ardsley High School in 1976, with the highest grades remembered in the history of the school. His 90+ page senior thesis, Morals and Mortals, is also believed to be the longest paper ever written at the school, and before graduating high school he had published in the New York Times and won a national science essay award.

As an undergraduate at Yale University, Lempert continued to attain national recognition. Senator William Proxmire, Democrat, Wisconsin, for whom he worked as in intern and speechwriter in 1978, heralded his work on promoting U. Edward William Proxmire ( November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the S. signing of the United Nations Genocide Convention by mentioning it on the floor of the U. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security S. Senate and printing one of his articles in the Congressional Record. The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. An undergaduate project of his at Yale, to meet everyone in his Yale class, was also featured in The New York Times. His undergraduate thesis on “The Survival of Democracy in Mauritius: A Demographic-Economic Explanation of Political Stability”, won Yale's C. W. Clarke Prize in Comparative Politics and was entered into competition with Doctoral Thesis for other awards. The thesis was one of the first attempts to link economic and demographic factors in predicting political violence and stability, and appeared simultaneously with work by senior scholars such as Jack Goldstone and Ted Gurr. The paper was later published in the Eastern Africa Economic Review, in 1987. At graduation, Lempert was selected by his classmates as the Yale 1980 Class Orator and he gave a speech alongside Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28 1943 is an American hall of fame Basketball player Rhodes scholar, and former During the summer after graduation, Lempert traveled to Mauritius to meet with the Prime Minister, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (शिवसागर रामगुलाम, LRCP, MRCS ( 18 September 1900, Kewal Nagar Mauritius 15 December Though only 21, his visit was publicized in several of Mauritius’ newspapers and he appeared in one in a cartoon with the Prime Minister. Mauritius (pronounced məˈrɪʃəs L’île Maurice /il mɔ'ʁis/ Mauritian Creole: Maurice) officially the Republic of Mauritius, République

After graduating Yale, Lempert went to Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he simultaneously earned law and business degrees. Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto California, United States, in Silicon Valley The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB) is one of the professional He was also encouraged by Kennell Jackson, who hired him as a Resident Advisor in Stanford's Branner Hall, to develop new educational initiatives. Lempert developed the new undergraduate specials course, The Unseen America that later sparked the creation of an NGO by the same name.

After passing the California Bar and working as an attorney, Lempert entered the University of California, Berkeley to work on a Ph.D. in anthropology, that he completed in 1992. An attorney at law (or attorney-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. While there, as a graduate student, he continued to develop the Unseen America field classes. In 1989, he led students from Harvard and Brown Universities to Ecuador to test a summer program whereby college students would write a national development plan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Ecuador topics. At the end of the summer, the students had written a book length development plan, in Spanish, that they presented in person to Ecuadorian President Rodrigo Borja and defended on national television and in newspapers in Ecuador. Rodrigo Borja Cevallos (born 19 June 1935) was President of Ecuador from 10 August 1988 to 10 August 1992 The plan was later published in English as a textbook in development studies, A Model Development Plan: New Ideas and Perspectives. With the success of these approaches in democratic experiential education and while still a graduate student, Lempert and other students at Stanford and Berkeley founded an NGO called Unseen America Projects, Inc. They later published a book describing their approach and several new curricula they developed, Escape from the Ivory Tower: Student Adventures in Democratic Experiential Education.

Also while still a graduate student, Lempert began work on a series of books and articles to develop a new participatory democracy model. Participatory democracy is a process emphasizing the broad Participation (decision making of constituents in the direction and operation of political systems The trilogy of books he began as a graduate student at Berkeley, including A Return to Democracy and A Return to Community, earned him an invitation to lecture before the Yale Law School faculty. The ideas are also published in several shorter articles on model constitutions for developing and developed countries.

For his doctoral research, Lempert won a fellowship to become the first American anthropologist to conduct fieldwork in the urban Soviet Union in 1989. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 He traveled to the U. S. S. R. and began fieldwork for what later became a two-volume, 1,800 page study and the first ever ethnography of urban Russia and the Russian legal-political system entitled, Daily Life in a Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy. It is in this work that Lempert also coined the phrase, “Pepsi-stroika” (a pun on the word, “perestroika”) to describe changes in Russia. (Перестройка) is the Russian term (now used in English for the economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Lempert's research earned him a visiting fellowship to the Harvard University Russian Research Center in 1990 as the Center's first anthropologist to do work on Russia since its founder, Clyde Klukhohn and anthropologist Margaret Mead. Margaret Mead ( December 16, 1901, Philadelphia &ndash November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American

Since the early 1990s, Lempert has worked full time as a consultant in education, government reform, sustainable development, cultural and minority protections and to develop new methodologies in several of these fields. He has consulted in more than 20 countries for governments, universities, and NGOs and has worked for UNICEF, UNHCR, the ILO, UNDP, the World Bank, the European Union, for several international European donors, for CARE, WWF, IUCN, and for foundations such as the Soros Foundation. His work on human rights for the UN has generated some of the most advanced measures of human rights impacts and guidelines for programming, viewing rights as long-term benefits with economic and social outcome measures, rather than of “moral” value. Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled He has also spearheaded a movement for a Red Book of Endangered Cultures, to promote cultural diversity, similar to the approach taken by environmentalists to promote bio-diversity, has written and promoted ethics codes for development professionals, and has advocated for new institutions to monitor development aid and donor activities in developing countries.

In 1999, he became the second U. S. Fulbright professor ever to visit unified Vietnam.

Lempert sometimes goes by a nickname classmates gave him at Yale, “Superlemp”.

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Other book manuscripts

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