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| name          = Maynard S. Clark
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| caption      = Maynard S. Clark
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| caption      = Maynard S. Clark
| residence    = Greater Boston, [[Massachusetts]], USA
| citizenship  = [[United States]]
| period        = 20th and 21st centuries
| genre        = <small>philosophical, sociological, spiritual, ethical, practical</small>
| subject      = <small>veganism, ahimsa, community organizing, business skills,</br>business procedures</br>academics</br>social history</small>
| movement      = vegan movement
| notableworks  = ''popular, vegan, serious''</br>
* <small>over 90 Wikipedia articles;</small></br>
* <small>numerous book reviews;</small></br>
* <small>talks on vegetarianism & veganism;</small></br>
* <small>thousands of blog entries;</small></br>
* <small>documentation for various businesses</small>;</br>
* <small>how-to-do-it articles on vegetarian organizing</small>;</br>
* <small>[http://cache.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=42881527&page_url=%2f%2fwww.goodkarmacafe.com%2fguides%2fbostonveg.shtml&page_last_updated=2%2f12%2f2001+10%3a25%3a07+AM&firstName=Maynard&lastName=Clark local vegetarian dining guides];</br>
* <small>various other writings</small>
| relatives    =
| influenced    = vegan and vegetarian movements;</br>
some social movements the vegan and vegetarian communities engage
| awards        = Marquis's Who's Who;</br>
<small>most widely-read undergraduate,</small></br>
<small>[[California State University, Hayward]], Hayward, CA</small>
| website      = http://Maynard.Clark.GooglePages.com
| ethnicity    = European-American
| hyphenation  = Vegan-American
| field = University education, bioethics, social medicine, vegan advocacy, social reform, social science, business services
| work_institutions = [[Harvard Medical School]];</br>[[Harvard School of Public Health]]
| birth_date    = 20th century
| birth_place  = USA
| occupation    = Vegan Advocate,</br>Social Reformer
| spouse        = <small>single, never married (''she would need to be a serious vegan'')</small>
| children      = <small>none (''loves children and animals'')</small>
| religion      = Veganism, Ahimsa</br>(homage to serious religious and wisdom traditions that point to vegan values)
| nationality  = American
| known_for    = promoting vegan practice and values, founding several vegetarian organizations: [[Boston Vegetarian Society]] and [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=48227&trk=anet_ug_hm Vegetarian Resource Center], urging vegetarians onto the Internet in the 1990s, starting the [http://www.BostonVeg.org/foodfest Boston Vegetarian Food Festival]
| Alma Mater    = [[Wheaton College]], Wheaton, Illinois
| Alma Mater    = [[California State University, Hayward]], Hayward, California
| Alma Mater    = [[Harvard Divinity School]], Cambridge, Massachusetts
| death_date    =
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User:Maynard S. Clark is [http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5EUGTRS6RA7TWNCIAFESIW4BKQ Maynard S. Clark] of Boston.
[[Category:CZ Authors|Clark, Maynard S.]]
http://Maynard.Clark.GooglePages.com has photos of Maynard and links to all his several blogs.
[[Category:Philosophy Authors|Clark, Maynard S.]]
Maynard (dot) Clark (at) gmail (dot) com
[[Category:Religion Authors|Clark, Maynard S.]]  
 
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Maynard S. Clark of Boston was first featured in ''Marquis's Who's Who'' since the early 1990s.
 
== Profitable Employment ==
[[File:Maynard_Clark_at_Harvard_Faculty_Club.jpg|thumb|left|Maynard Clark at the Harvard Faculty Club]]
 
Maynard S. Clark of Boston has since 2007 been Program Manager for the annual [http://www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/ Ethical Issues in Global Health Research course] in the  [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/departments/global-health-and-population/ Department of Global Health and Population] in the [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu Harvard School of Public Health], previously known as the HSPH Department of Population and International Health.  EIGHR was begun in 1999 with a 2-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to Dr. [[Richard A. Cash]], a medical doctor teaching in GHP who is famous for developing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_rehydration_therapy oral rehydration therapy] (aka [http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Ome-Pop/Oral-Rehydration-Therapy.html ORT]) in the developing world, with the 3rd party claim that Dr. Cash's [http://rehydrate.org/ ORT] has saved more lives less glamorously and less expensively than all HIV work today.  The intensive summer course, which has run successfully and profitably for 11 years, draws from the developed and developing world medical experts involved with designing, conducting, supervising, funding, or approving health research across several nations.
 
He has also been employed by the [http://www.HMS.Harvard.edu Harvard Medical School] of Boston and has been employed there since the 1990s.  In the [http://GHSM.HMS.Harvard.edu/ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine], he has served (when GHSM was DSM) on the Green Team, the Website Committee, and the Social Committee and over the years (covering two decades) has volunteered for various special projects and events.  For roughly a decade he served as Faculty Assistant to the late Dr. [[Leon Eisenberg]], GHSM Department Founder and former Chair of Social Medicine.
 
He researched and archived the entire set of published writings of the late Professor [[Leon Eisenberg]], MD, whom he had supported from 1999 through Dr. Eisenberg's death in September 2009.  A nearly complete electronic archive of Eisenberg's 62+ years of writings and speeches will be available through the [https://www.countway.harvard.edu/menuNavigation/historicalResources.html Center for the History of Medicine] of the [https://www.countway.harvard.edu Countway Medical Library] of [[Harvard Medical School]].
 
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Before that, he studied in a variety of universities and graduate schools, including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,_Hayward California State University, Hayward], [[Harvard Divinity School]], [[Wheaton College (Illinois)]], [[Tufts University]], etc.  He was employed while studying at each school.  He is now a full-time graduate student in research administration at [[Emmanuel College]] in Boston, while continuing to work for the [[Harvard School of Public Health]].
 
== The Vegetarian Part ==
In the Bible, the Apostle Paul is charged with a 'tent-making' ministry - he earns a living through manual labor, by selling his own custom-made tents to buyers, and this helps finance his ministry of outreach.
 
Maynard left the culinary field (had cooked at the Boca Raton Hotel and Club in Boca Raton, Florida and had managed some restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area) to go to Harvard Divinity School, where he went vegetarian, then a year later went vegan.  He tried returning to the culinary field, but he suggests that he may not have been innovative enough at that time, nor did he have the financial and strategic resources to buck the trends in foodservice and make a professional career consulting in a field that had not yet been as well-developed as it is today.
 
One masterful touch has since been provided by vegan chef, Ken Bergeron, CEC, who has won gold and silver medals at the International Culinary Olympics, organizes the food annually at the annual NAVS (North American Vegetarian Society) Vegetarian Summerfest (www.VegetarianSummerfest.org) and studied with Ron Pickarski, CEC.  Chef Ken Bergeron wrote [http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Vegetarian-Cooking-Ken-Bergeron/dp/0471292354 Professional Vegetarian Cooking].
 
Before attending graduate school at [http://www.Harvard.edu Harvard] in Cambridge, where he became [http://www.NAVS-Online.org vegetarian] then [http://www.vegan.com vegan] (he has continued being vegan for over half his natural life now), he was designated a "most widely-read undergraduate" while at [http://www.csuhayward.edu/ California State University in Hayward] (CSUH has since become CSUEB, California State University, East Bay).  He had long resisted 'going vegetarian' with the excuse, "I'm NOT a 'do-gooder'."
 
As a vegetarian community organizer and planner and developer of events, he helped (with several national vegetarian organizations) to organize several national, continental, and international-scale vegetarian events, such as the [http://www.vegansworldnetwork.org/festival_8_report.php 8th International Vegan Festival]<ref>http://www.ivu.org/veganfest/1995/</ref> (in [[San Diego]], CA, in 1995), the [http://www.meatout.org/ Great American Meatout] (organized by [http://www.FARMUSA.org FARM], where he was regional or [http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchresults.aspx?q=%22Maynard+Clark%22 national outreach coordinator] for several years in a row around the late '80s and early '90s), and the [http://www.ivu.org/congress/wvc96/authors.html 1996 World Vegetarian Congress] (held with [http://www.NAVS-Online.org NAVS] in Johnstown, PA).  He also developed the groundwork for the [http://www.bostonveg.org/foodfest/ Boston Vegetarian Food Festival], organizing a team and helping directing its first several years of development, before passing the event over to the [[Boston Vegetarian Society]], an organization which he ALSO founded in the mid-1980s.  Further, during the late 1990s and the turn of the 21st century, he laid the groundwork of networking, which eventually emerged as the [http://www.ChristianVeg.org Christian Vegetarian Association] (CVA) in 2002, after [http://www.all-creatures.org/ Rev. Frank L. Hoffman] of New York developed the [http://www.All-Creatures.org All-Creatures.org website portal], which [http://www.all-creatures.org/cva/ hosts a CVA mirror site].  He continues to 'organize' by talking with vegetarian businesses about how to improve their 'transformative' role in popular culture by advancing high-quality vegan products, services, and values.
 
Maynard's efforts to start vegetarian business have been less successful than his efforts to engender all volunteer nonprofit vegetarian social operations, such as the Boston Vegetarian Society, the Vegetarian Resource Center, and various vegetarian and vegan meetups throughout Boston.  VeggieSeek.com didn't fare very well between 1999-2001 because (a) the dot-com boom was (temporarily) ending and some (very famous) vegetarians (at that time) questioned the notion that a vegetarian should try to make a living from charging for a service (of any kind) provided to vegetarians and vegans, to the herbivorous communities.  The template was built by Dr. Ken Granderson, then of Inner City Software in Boston, but the team voted to bring down the supply chain business portal with lots of FREE bells and whistles for veg*an social networking, community organizing, and the like.
 
He has reviewed vegetarian books social science and religion books since the early 1970s and continues to do so.
 
He continues to manage numerous online resources for vegans and vegetarians: some controlled-access networking venues, and some open-ended discussion venues.
 
== [http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=48227&sharedKey=0C36E568C8E6 Vegetarian Resource Center] Accomplishments ==
The [http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=48227&sharedKey=0C36E568C8E6 Vegetarian Resource Center] (VRC) is credited with:
*Establishing on-line resources that have led to the founding of the [http://www.christianveg.com Christian Vegetarian Association], several Muslim vegetarian networks, Sikh and Bahai vegetarian networks, and the [http://www.SERV-Online.org Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians]
*Establishing the [http://wwww.BostonVeg.org/foodfest Boston Vegetarian Food Festival], the major organizing tool and fundraiser for the [http://www.BostonVeg.org Boston Vegetarian Society].
*Instigating community organizing discussions among vegetarians and vegans
 
== Teaching ==
In addition to training and mentoring responsibilities for vegetarians and in the context of employment, he gives public talks in vegetarian contexts.  The most recent was (with [http://www.google.com/search?q=Vance+Lehmkuhl&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a journalist, blogger, and cartoonist Vance Lehmkuhl]) at the [http://www.VegetarianSummerfest.org 35th Annual NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown PA] " 'Friend' is a Verb: Vegetarians and Social Media - the Ethics of 'Getting the Word Out' "
 
== Writing and Publications==
Maynard's writings (not specifically referenced here) are popular, vegan, and/or serious:
 
* numerous book reviews;
* talks on vegetarianism & veganism;
* thousands of blog entries;
* documentation and training manuals for various businesses;
* how-to-do-it articles on vegetarian organizing;
* numerous vegetarian newsletters and editorial and commentary contributions
* various other writings
* nearly 90 Wikipedia articles (easy to find for Wikipedia editors);
 
These ~90 accepted Wikipedia articles (plus some that have NOT been accepted) break down (approximately) as follows:
 
* Started  14
* Improved  25
* Initiated or Maintained - 18
* Contributed to - 20
* Worked On 20
* Edited - 15
* Tweaked  26
* Minor Tweaks - 23
* Wikipedia articles developed but removed - 6
(note evident overlaps in categories)
 
Several of his articles have been rejected; most (not all) of them dealt with vegetarian topics.
Those included articles on:
 
* Dr. Carl Phillips, Harvard and University of Michigan alum, who was an outspoken early 21st century advocate of evidence-based vegan advocacy.
* Freya Dinshah, widow of [[H. Jay Dinshah]], who now runs the American Vegan Society in Malaga NJ.
* Vegetarian Hall of Fame
 
He has been a Wikipedian since early May 2007 and spends far TOO MUCH time on it. I'd call that 'dedication'.
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== Unpaid (Volunteer) Employment ==
*[http://www.BostonVeg.org/ Boston Vegetarian Society] - Founder in 1984 through early 21st century)
*[http://www.IVU.org/ International Vegetarian Union] - Vice President of VUNA, Regional Councillor for N Am.
*[http://www.FARMUSA.org/ FARM = Farm Animal Reform Movement] - National Education Coordinator, Great American Meatout annual outreach campaign
*[http://www.NAVS-Online.org/ NAVS = North American Vegetarian Society]
*[http://www.MEATOUT.org/ Great American Meatout]
*[http://www.BostonVegan.org Boston Vegan Association] - Life Member, Coordinator of Volunteers; Membership Coordinator
*[http://www.VegetarianSummerfest.org Annual NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest]
*[http://Vegetarian.Meetup.com/27/ Boston Vegetarian Meetup]
*[http://Vegan.Meetup.com/23/ Boston Vegan Meetup] <ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchresults.aspx?q=%22Maynard+Clark%22 Newspaper article by Jennifer Berkshire from The Boston Herald 9/14/2003 "Web inspires no-meat-and-greets" (in "Food" Section)]</ref>
*[http://Vegetarian.Meetup.com/219/ Greater Boston Veggie Meetup]
 
'''PAST'''
Massachusetts Cities of Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, and Malden (Recycling committees)
Steering Committee of Somerville MA Recycling Committee
 
== Animal Rights Involvements ==
*[http://www.NEAVS.org/ New England Anti-Vivisection Society] - Life Member
*[http://www.NAVS.org/ National Anti-Vivisection Society] - Life Member
*[http://www.AAVS.org/ American Anti-Vivisection Society] - Life Member
*[http://www.ceaseboston.org CEASE] - Life Member
 
== Vegetarian Involvements ==
*[http://www.IVU.org International Vegetarian Union]- Life Member, Benefactor; Vice President of VUNA, Regional Councillor for North America; Conference Attendee and Participant
*[http://www.NAVS-Online.org North American Vegetarian Society] - Life Member, Benefactor, Annual Speaker
*[http://www.BostonVeg.org Boston Vegetarian Society] - Life Member, Founder in 1984 through early 21st century
*[http://www.BostonVegan.org Boston Vegan Association] - Life Member, Facebook Site Manager; Past Roles: Coordinator of Volunteers, Membership Coordinator, Acting President and Vice President of the BVA Public Speakers' Workshop (now the [http://veganspeak.ning.com/ Boston Vegan Speaking Workshop])
*[http://www.IVU.org/vuna/ Vegetarian Union of North America] - Life Member, Past Vice President and Regional Council Member
*[http://www.VeganOutreach.org Vegan Outreach]- Volunteer
*[http://www.FARMUSA.org/ FARM = Farm Animal Reform Movement] - National Education Coordinator, Great American Meatout annual outreach campaign
*[http://www.MEATOUT.org/ Great American Meatout]
*[http://www.VegetarianSummerfest.org Speaker and Workshop Organizer and/or Participant at Annual NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest]
*[http://Vegetarian.Meetup.com/27/ Boston Vegetarian Meetup]
*[http://Vegan.Meetup.com/23/ Boston Vegan Meetup] <ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchresults.aspx?q=%22Maynard+Clark%22 Newspaper article by Jennifer Berkshire from The Boston Herald 9/14/2003 "Web inspires no-meat-and-greets" (in "Food" Section)]</ref>
*[http://Vegetarian.Meetup.com/219/ Greater Boston Veggie Meetup]
*[http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-MqEKk9k8er93iv.A4j6CcPaXFOY-?cq=1 Blogger]
 
== Paid Employment ==
CURRENT:
*[http://www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/ Program Manager of the Ethical Issues in Global Health Research program]
*[http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/departments/global-health-and-population/ Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard School of Public Health]
*[http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/research/data_admin/Site275/mainpageS275P0.html Web Developer and Program Assistant for MHDD.org - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities operation at Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Children's Hospital, Boston, where Dr. Kerim Munir (Child Psychiatrist) is  Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Center]
 
PAST:
*[http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School]
*[http://www.TTCTranscriptions.com/ Tape Transcription Center (TTC)]
*[http://www.SkillBureau.com/ The Skill Bureau (TSB)]
*[http://www.FMR.com/ Fidelity Investments, FTPS]
*[[Filene's]]
*[http://www.Tufts.edu/ Tufts University]
*[http://www.EESCo.com/ Software Intern, EES Companies]
*[http://www.FMR.com/ Fidelity Investments, Fidelity Data Systems (FDS), Operations, President's Office, Human Resources, Advertising, Men's Buying]
*[http://www.BostonEthical.org Children's Program Director, Ethical Society of Boston]
 
== Ideas and Controversies ==
* [http://bostonvegan.blogspot.com/2009/10/30-solution.html The 30% Solution] - http://bostonvegan.blogspot.com/2009/10/30-solution.html
 
== Interests and Avocations ==
He loves classical music, vegan whole foods cooking, and [http://Maynard.Clark.GooglePages.com digital photographer].  He [http://Maynard.Clark.GooglePages.com traveled to India in September 2006] for the IVU's [http://www.ivu.org/congress/2006/index.html 37th World Vegetarian Congress in Goa], after which he vege-toured three of India's many states: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa Goa], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka Karnataka], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra Maharashtra] (where [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai Mumbai]/[http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~easwaran/papers/india.html Bombay] is located).
 
He's an aggressive blogger and social media advocate; he's lectured to vegetarian conferences on using these tools.  His [http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=585051106 Facebook] friends number over 4500, his [http://www.linkedin.com/in/maynardclark LinkedIn] contacts over 1350, and his [http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-MqEKk9k8er93iv.A4j6CcPaXFOY-?cq=1 blog readership] passed a million early in 2009 and eventually exceeded 1.3 million.
 
== Quips and Humor ==
* Most blondes aren't !
* Vegan over half my natural life, longer than most human earthlings have been alive.
 
==References==
<references/>
 
== Wikipedia Status ==
He has been a Wikipedian since early May 2007 and spends far TOO MUCH time on it.  I'd call that 'dedication'.
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Maynard has started, maintained, improved, worked on, or tweaked >90 accepted Wikipedia pages:</br>
 
* Started  14
* Improved  25
* Initiated or Maintained - 18
* Contributed to - 20
* Worked On 20
* Edited - 15
* Tweaked  26
* Minor Tweaks - 23
* Wikipedia articles developed but removed - 6
(note evident overlaps in categories)</br>
 
Several of his articles have been rejected; most (not all) of them dealt with vegetarian topics.
Those included articles on:</br>
 
* [http://www.tobaccoharmreduction.org/phillips_cv_sept09.pdf Dr. Carl Phillips], Harvard and University of Michigan alum, who was an outspoken early 21st century advocate of evidence-based vegan advocacy. , who was an outspoken early 21st century advocate of evidence-based vegan advocacy.
* Freya Dinshah, widow of [[H. Jay Dinshah]], who now runs the American Vegan Society in Malaga NJ.
* Vegetarian Hall of Fame
 
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[[Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Emmanuel College]]
[[Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: California State University, Hayward]]
[[Category:Wikipedians from Harvard]]
[[Category:Wikipedians from California]]
[[Category:Wikipedians from Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Wikipedians from Ohio]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Wikipedian vegetarians]]
[[Category:Wikipedian vegans]]
[[Category:American vegans]]
[[Category:American vegetarians]]

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