Jeff Strabone

Jeff Strabone is a Brooklyn-based American scholar, political activist and civic leader. In 2016, his website ''directelection.org'' listed the names and addresses of members of the U.S. Electoral College, and he urged people to write to electors to ask them not to vote for president-elect Donald Trump, an effort which brought him national attention. As a civic leader in Brooklyn, he has been active in promoting theatre preservation, building codes and housing issues, hospital preservation, and traffic flow. He has been a leader of Brooklyn's Cobble Hill Association, a neighborhood preservation group. He is the co-founder and chairman of the New Brooklyn Theatre.

In 2008, he changed his middle name to ''Hussein'' as a show of solidarity with then presidential candidate Barack Obama, who was running for the office of president, and whose Muslim-sounding middle name had been widely commented on.Note: the name change was not legally done; it was a public gesture. He is an associate professor of English and teaches British and African literature, and he was granted tenure at Connecticut College in 2016. He commented about the post-election effort:

Publications

* ''Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century: Imagined Antiquities'', 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan.

References

External links

DirectElection.org
website with names/addresses of electors

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Dartmouth College alumni
Northwestern University alumni
New York University alumni
Living people
Activists from New York (state)
American political activists
Connecticut College faculty
People from Brooklyn
Year of birth missing (living people)