James Patton
James Patton completed his undergraduate in Neurophysiology and Cultural Philosophy at the University of Connecticut in 1994. In the fall of that year he was stationed in Paraguay with the Peace Corps. After living in Latin America for three years, he returned to work in Central American policy with the Harvard Institute for International Development, in immigrant rights issues with Centro Presente and the American Friends Service Committee, and has returned to Bolivia to shoot a documentary film on the impact of U.S. drug policy on the coca farmer (a film that is still in production). He entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1999 to study theological and secular roots of Social Justice movements and began his first year at The Fletcher School in 2001. He is currently considering ordination in the Universalist/Unitarian tradition and plans to spend the summer of 2002 working in Southeast Asia. He is always open for a cup of tea.