David Allyn

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David Allyn, Ph.D. (born April 30, 1969) is Director of Development for New Jersey SEEDS (Scholars, Educators, Excellence, Dedication & Success)^[1], an organization serving high-achieving, low-income students.

He is the author of four books, including Make Love, Not War.^[2][3] and I Can't Believe I Just Did That,^[4] and has served as a faculty member at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at Columbia University at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.^[5] His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and other publications. While an undergraduate at Brown University, Allyn co-authored a book on transferring from one college to another. He and his co-author (later wife) were profiled in The Washington Post and featured on CNN. He has also published articles in The Journal of American Studies ^[6], Teachers College Record^[7], The Advocate, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Allyn is the stepson of the late John Wallach, founder of the nonprofit organization Seeds of Peace^[8]. Born David Smith, the young Allyn was raised as David Wallach and subsequently as David Smith-Wallach and then David Wallach-Smith. In 1996, he and his fiancee jointly took the last name "Allyn" -- a merger of their middle names (Alan and Lynn) -- a decision they wrote about in the anthology To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism^[9].

Allyn's play, Baptizing Adam,^[10] won the James H. Wilson Award for Best-Full Length Play.^{[citation needed]} His play Writers Colony appeared in the 2009 Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City.^[11] As an expert on the 1960's, Allyn has appeared on Vh1 and The History Channel. ^[12]

Allyn graduated from the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1996-1999, he taught History at Princeton University.

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