James Schmitz
Education Advocate
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJames Schmitz is an education advocate and policy-savvy communicator with 16 years of experience translating complex policy issues into actionable insights across higher education and government settings. Currently at Northwestern’s SESP Leadership Institute, he studies student collaboration and project-based learning while completing an MS in Education, combining empirical observation with policy perspective. His background includes congressional internships and government relations roles where he produced memos, tracked casework, and briefed stakeholders on education and budgetary issues. A skilled writer and communicator—also the author of THE CANKER DEATH—he brings a rare blend of on-the-ground educational research, legislative experience, and media-ready storytelling to advance evidence-informed education policy.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA American History, Bachelor of Arts - BA American History at DePaul UniversityMaster of Science - MS Education (MSEd), Master of Science - MS Education (MSEd) at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (22)
cgit7
branches6
aws5
freebsd4
terraform4
slack4
pkg3
chat3
package3
terraform-module3
infrastructure3
terraform-provider3
java2
linux2
hydra2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
avalonmediasystem/avalon-aws
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
aws-cloudformationavaloncloudformation-templatesawscloudformation
Toputnal/dotfiles
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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