Chris Peterson
Director Of Communications And Special Projects, MIT Admissions SFS
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChris Peterson is a communications and special projects leader at MIT Admissions with 12 years of experience blending digital strategy, admissions operations, and academic teaching. He directs high-impact communications and recruitment initiatives for special cohorts while teaching Comparative Media Studies courses on networked culture and qualitative research methods. Known for building proprietary tools and systems to analyze engagement and manage large prospect communities, he pairs technical curiosity with civic-minded thinking about the internet’s social effects. His background in critical legal studies and international law informs a thoughtful, systems-oriented approach to complex institutional challenges. Based in Cambridge, he balances hands-on program design with public speaking and mentorship across MIT.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
S.M. Comparative Media Studies, S.M. Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInternational Law, International Law at University of OxfordB.A. Critical Legal Studies, B.A. Critical Legal Studies at University of Massachusetts AmherstGeneral Humanities, General Humanities at William & Mary
Github Skills (21)
youtube8
ffmpeg7
cli7
esoteric-programming-language5
youtube-dl5
twitter4
cryptanalysis4
wolfram-language4
python3
code-golf3
recipe3
security3
garden2
interpreter2
esoteric-language2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peteyreplies/mitblogs_data
Aug 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 3 months
peteyreplies/youtube-music-ripper
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 1 day
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