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From the outside, Americas alt right is a nebulous movement based on racism, nationalism, and white supremacy. In contrast, the tech elites in Silicon Valley look like a relatively worldly bunch, despite the calls from some quarters of the valley to break away from the plebeian masses of the US.

But despite their differences, strands of the two groups share strong links to Dark Enlightenment, an obscure neo-fascist philosophy started by a British academic in the 1990s.

The primary figure behind Dark Enlightenment is Nick Land, who was a philosophy professor at Warwick University until he quit academia in 1998. His work is a form of accelerationism (broadly speaking, a belief that the tools of capitalism and technology should be sped up and dramatically enhanced) and he was, for a time, something of a cult figure for his work on internet and cyber culture.

While at Warwick, Land was part of Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, which explored drugs, raves, and science fiction, and was affiliated with such notable figures as the philosopher Sadie Plant and the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. Land has never been a typical academic, and that shows in his writing. His Dark Enlightenment manifesto, published online in 2012, is florid, contradictory, and opaque.

Lands writings on in his blog and twitter can read like an alt-right rant, and comment sections on the far-right outlet Breitbart are apt to mention his work. Academic writers and former students of Lands have expressed ideas that are vaguely influenced by Dark Enlightenment. Others are more outspoken: One philosopher with clearly Landian ideas, Jason Reza Jorjani, who lectures at New Jersey Institute of Technology, is co-founder of altright.com and spoke at a white nationalist meeting led by Richard Spencer.

What are the tenets of Dark Enlightenment theory? There are a few consistent themes, circling around technology, warfare, feudalism, corporate power, and racism. Its an acceleration of capitalism to a fascist point, says Benjamin Noys, a critical theory professor at the University of Chichester and author of Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism.

Those who have studied Dark Enlightenment describe an almost cult-like vision of a dystopian future. It is a worship of corporate power to the extent that corporate power becomes the only power in the world, says David Golumbia, a new media professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. It becomes militarized, and states break down. For some reason thats difficult to understand, they seem to think these highly weaponized feudal enclaves would be more free than the society we currently have.

Land believes that advances in computing will enable dominant humans to merge with machines and become cybernetic super beings. He advocates for racial separation under the belief that elites will enhance their IQs by associating only with each other.

Capitalism has not yet been fully unleashed, he argues, and corporate power should become the organizing force in society. Land is vehemently against democracy, believing it restricts accountability and freedom. The world should do away with political power, according to Dark Enlightenment, and instead, society should break into tiny states, each effectively governed by a CEO.

Earlier this year, Politico reported that White House strategist Steve Bannon is a fan of Dark Enlightenment. Meanwhile, the major proponent of the movement other than Land is software engineer Curtis Yarvin, who blogs as Mencius Moldbug.

And while most Silicon Valley techies are unaware of and uninterested in Dark Enlightenment, there are notable figures and ideas that seem to share intellectual heritage and connections with the movement.

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel is a major backer of Yarvins start-ups and, as The Baffler reports, in 2012, Thiel gave a lecture at Stanford with distinct Dark Enlightenment themes. A startup is basically structured as a monarchy, he said at the time. We dont call it that, of course. That would seem weirdly outdated, and anything thats not democracy makes people uncomfortable.

Growing Silicon Valley interest in creating a small, separate state is straight out of Lands writing. Meanwhile there are growing numbers of techies who identify with Yarvin and neoreactionary ideas.

And, of course, both Silicon Valley and Dark Enlightenment are products of and devotees to internet culture. Noys notes that certain values in Silicon Valley are vaguely sympathetic to Lands thinking. Theres this entrepreneurial belief that youre the master of the universe, he says. They believe theyre the exception that proves the rule, that anyone can be successful.

Land says that, though he expects Dark Enlightenment micro-states to first form on islands, Silicon Valley is bound to be involved in the process as these societies form.

The alt right and Silicon Valley are not the only two cliques with ties to Dark Enlightenment thinking. Avant-garde art artists have also dabbled in Dark Enlightenment. A London gallery, LD50, was shut down amid protests after Land was invited to talk at the gallery, providing a platform for Dark Enlightenment ideas.

You could arguethough I wouldntthat the alt right and Dark Enlightenment are artistic works, says Noys. Twenty-first century art has been interested in transgression and shock, so theres an interest in how these people have used their memes to achieve their goals.

US president Donald Trump, Land says, is a symptom of crisis and sign that the West is broken. But Land views White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as, an unusually interesting politician.

Dark Enlightenment proponents see themselves as the philosophical masters of the alt-right movement, says Noys. Land sees himself as above all that, as a Philosopher King of a movement thats too populist and grubby for this liking, says Noys. Hes part of this continuum, thats pretty clear. But hes fighting to distinguish himself from the more populist end of things.

Golumbia agrees that He probably thinks hes smarter than all of them [the alt right], or they havent gone far enough. But they are definitely fellow travellers.

Land himself is dismissive of the alt right, which he calls a predictable (and predicted) development of mass democracy, as it enters its collapse-phase in an email to Quartz. Still, he says, Insofar as it marks the end of global governance on the basis of evangelical egalitarian-universalism, it makes space for more realistic political conversations, which have notably begun to happen.

Land also rejects the idea that Dark Enlightenment has fascist elements, writing that Fascism is a mass anti-capitalist movement, when the word isnt (more usually) simply a childish insult. As for racial divides, he says the science is an empirical question but that human population groups are significantly distinct, however, is a matter so self-evident to ordinary people that it makes for a natural default.

Lands theories sound easily dismissible, and Nick Land is still largely unknown, but his neo-fascist ideas are finding niches where they flourish.. I think theres this emergent fringe, says Noys.

Golumbia notes that Lands work attracted plenty of impressionable graduate students decades ago. It undoubtedly helps that offensive ideas are masked with references to respected writers and philosophers: Land has his own idiosyncratic reading of the German philosopher Nietzsche, for example, and the French 2oth century thinkers Deleuze, Guattari, and Bataille. And as far as accelerationism goes, Noys traces its intellectual heritage to the Italian futurists (who had their own ties with fascism).

Despite their long lineage, the ideas fall apart under scrutiny. To those of us who were more skeptical, it looked like it had the seeds of a disturbing belief in a superman: This kind of digital hybrid cyber-being who was a lot better than the ordinary weak people, says Golumbia. His writing is more and more obsessed with race, Islam, echoing the things that people like Nigel Farage say. He sounds like a visionary but really hes nothing but these reactionary clichs about how minority people are to blame for all of our problems.

Land, who has long perceived himself as a visionary, firmly believes that society and government as we know it will break down and his vision for the future will come to pass. The crack-up is obvious to everyone, Land writes. (Thats why youre doing this story.)

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The neo-fascist philosophy that underpins both the alt-right and Silicon Valley technophiles - Quartz

There are two types of clowns in Shakespeare: clever fools who speak truth to power (King Lear's court jester, Feste in Twelfth Night) and actual idiots, written to be laughed at, who spew malapropisms and wind up magically transformed into asses. The alt-right agitators who interrupted Friday's Shakespeare in the Park performance of Julius Caesar fell squarely into the latter category. While they may have failed in their primary goal of activist mischief I happened to be sitting in the audience and can attest that the brief disruption merely added a frisson of excitement to an excellent, already electric production, so, thanks for that, dudes they did manage one neat trick, turning one of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedies, ever so briefly, into a comedy.

Certain segments of the Right have been stirred by news reports of this Caesar, in which the assassinated Roman emporer has been recast as a Trump figure. (There are also visual references throughout to Ferguson and Occupy Wall Street.) Charges of liberal hypocrisy were promiscuously levied "The Left doesn't like it when their tactics are used against their 'expression.' How many wd storm stage if 'Obama' was stabbed?" Laura Ingraham tweeted though, as many have pointed out, an Obama-like Caesar had been offed in a 2012 production of the play at Minneapolis' esteemed Guthrie Theater, with no attendant fuss. Beyond that, to interpret Julius Caesar as somehow pro-assassination is both illiterate and ahistorical. As the British critic and Shakespearean scholar Frank Kermode once wrote, "Shakespeare treats [Brutus] with delicate sympathy, but cannot have thought his act a right one."

Still, with news of the production breaking so soon after Kathy Griffin's gross, unfunny mock-beheading of Trump, a misreading willful or otherwise of director Oskar Eustis' intentions was inevitable. But any good-faith critic of the show who actually sat through it would have to admit there's zero celebration of violence in the staging. Indeed, quite the opposite: the gory stabbing of Caesar-Trump (subtly played by Gregg Henry) was horrific, eliciting audible gasps from the crowd; a woman sitting near me covered her face.

Seconds later, a woman dressed in black rushed onto the stage. It wasn't clear, at first, if she was part of the show throughout the performance, actors in street clothes portraying members of various mobs erupted from the audience but the deer-in-the-headlights look in her eyes gave her game away. "Stop the normalization of political violence against the right!" she cried, ignoring what she'd presumably just seen, an opposite-of-normalizing staging of violence that had left the audience stunned. I'm guessing she'd assumed members of the liberal New York crowd would all be laughing and high-fiving and clinking champagne flutes at the fictional death of the fictional Trump, and that she'd timed her outburst for maximum buzzkill. The audience did cheer as she was escorted from the amphitheater by security. (She was subsequently revealed to be Laura Loomer, a blogger for a Canadian alt-right website.)

As the commotion unfolded onstage, a man sitting in the section to my left stood up, holding a camera phone, and began screaming, "You are all Goebbels!" He meant Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, but hilariously, he mispronounced the name so thoroughly, many people were simply puzzled. Turning to my friend, I whispered, "Why is this guy calling us gerbils?" His name turned out to be Jack Dogberry oh wait, I'm sorry, Posobiec an online conspiracy theorist who has promoted lies like PizzaGate. Charmingly, he would later post on Twitter, "I 100% pronounced Goebbels the correct American English way. Sorry, kraut-lovers."

He was escorted out, too, and the show went on. Later, he'd lie online about witnessing "a Manhattan crowd roar with applause as President Trump was stabbed again and again on stage" 100 percent false. (It's here I'll note that Posobiec has been granted White House press credentials.) We did roar with applause, however, after his ouster, when the disembodied voice of the stage manager came over the intercome with the perfect cue, pointing the cast to the line that comes right after the dying Caesar's "Et tu, Brute?": "Actors, please, let's start up at 'Liberty! Freedom!'"

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We are all aware of the large reach and popularity of Wikipedia. However, what most people dont know is that, according to astudyconducted in 2011, only 9% of the editors at Wikipedia were women. And the percentage for India is even lower, just 3%.

Wikipedia recognises the systemic gender bias that is created because of factors such as these and thus enables its diverse range of users to edit and create Wikipedia pages, with reliable and authentic sources.

For June, Pride Month,Feminism In Indiaalong with Gaylaxy Magazine and India HIV/AIDS Allianceco-organised a Wikipedia Editathonon Queer Pride Marches in Indiaat India HIV/AIDS Alliances office,to increase the representation of queer pride marches in various cities and towns of India as well as to teach a new skill of creating and editing articles on Wikipedia to the youth.

Accordingly, we created a list of Indian queer pride marches and looked at their representation on Wikipedia. A lot of the names on the list did not have any Wikipedia pages, while the ones which did, had very basic and limited information (stub pages).

We were a group of 11 participants in total.The event began with a discussion on the whys and hows of Wikipedia editing for new-comers.

After that, each participant chose one or more pride march/city absent from Wikipedia, and started digging through the internet looking for interviews, news reports and e-books that mentioned their chosen march/city to write comprehensive Wikipedia articles on them.

By the end of the day, the participants had created a total of about 14 Wikipedia pages.

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If, as the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result, then hoping against hope that this time surelythistime an officer who shot a black man in cold blood would be held to account, is a type of insanity most profound. Or at the very least evidence of an overactive imagination rivaling that of the most creative screenplay writer. But rest assured, this movie does not have an alternate ending. It has been screen-tested before jury after jury, and it is quite clear by now which conclusion the audience prefers. Expecting anything different is to expect the things that have always happened to stop happening, and for those which never have to become the norm: like believing that any day now, hummingbirds will walk and pre-schoolers take flight.

And so we are left with the ineluctable conclusion that Yanez feared for his life because Philando Castile was ablackman with a gun, and for no other reason. Although licensed to carry it a point he made to Yanez in what would constitute some of his final words such a thing means little, either to police, the NRA, or those All Lives Matter folks who by their silence over Castiles killing and the acquittal of the one who killed him have made quite clear whom they mean anddontmean, or include in their definition of all.

This fear of black men if indeed we should even call it that, rather than the contempt it more closely resembles is a fascinating pathology, unmoderated by even the most elementary logic. And yet we regularly ratify the pathology with the stamp of rationality, pronouncing it understandable even if tragically unfortunate. So the very same logic that says it makes sense for Yanez to think Castile would have told him about his gun before proceeding to shoot him with it, leads large numbers to believe Tamir Rice would have pointed a toy gun which presumably he must have known held no real bullets at police who carry actual guns, which most assuredlydo. Its the same logic that allows still more to believe John Crawford would have pointed an air rifle at the officer who killed him at Walmart. And even though we have video in the cases of Rice and Crawford, demonstrating that neither pointed their fake guns at anyone, it is apparently easier to believe in the rationality of anti-black fear than to believe in what our own eyes are telling us.

But what is perhaps even more maddening than the facts of the case alone, more grotesque than for a man to be killed in front of a child, more sickening than the nonchalance with which the jury saw fit to return Yanez to the free world, it is the well-intended naivet of those who would conclude from this, as I gather many do, that such things prove the American system of justice is failing. They are shocked (shockedI tell you!) to be confronted with still more evidence that the notion of liberty and justice for all carries no more weight and is far less likely to be proved accurate than a fortune-cookie aphorism or the Lotto numbers your uncle played this week. But the idea that awfulness is evidence of system failure is the kind of conviction one could only afford to fall back upon were they previously fortunate enough to have had faith in the system to begin with.

The first rule of the social fabric that in times of crisis you protect the vulnerable was trampled. Leaving the poor in New Orleans was the moralequivalent of leaving the injured on the battlefield. No wonder confidence in civic institutions is plummeting.

Brooks, who somehow manages to always be surprised at how terrible his country can be, despite possessing an affect most resembling constipation made flesh which might lead one to believe he already understood this kind of thing is nearly a perfect representation of the naivet we can ill-afford to indulge. To believe we have ever protected the vulnerable especially the poor and vulnerable of color, who it should be said are in a state of perpetual crisis is to call into question ones entitlement to have matriculated past the eighth grade, let alone to find oneself firmly ensconced within the literary confines of the nations paper of record. Leaving such folks behind is not a violation of the nations social compact. Itisthis nations social compact; the manifestation of that compact in real time. And to lose confidence in our civic institutions as a result of it is only possible for those who already found themselves possessed of such confidence; which is to say a damn few black people but an awful lot of white ones.

So too with yet another acquittal in yet another case in which yet another black man finds himself on the business end of a cops firearm or perhaps chokehold and as with Rice and Crawford and Eric Garner, among others, on video no less and yet, nothing is done. No one should be shocked, and I suspect most folks of color are not. They know that the so-called justice system was not established for them, but to protect othersfrom them; that modern policing traces directly to slave patrols, which were the first iteration of real law enforcement in the colonies. They know that this society was quite literally established on the pretext that black peoples were dangerous and needed to be controlled, dominated, subordinated, even killed if need beand that when they were, there would be little or no consequence for those who had done the deed.

Its really quite simple: If a system is established to produce certain outcomes, and then proceeds to regularly and routinely produce them, upon what basis can we rationally suggest that the system is malfunctioning? Quite the opposite: if a system is established on the basis of unfairness and inequity, the only actual malfunction would be if that system suddenly and inexplicably began to produce justice. It would only be under such an odd and almost incomprehensible scenario that one might inquire as to why the machinery seemed to be breaking down. Or put a bit differently: If youre standing at the end of a conveyor belt in a sausage factory and find yourself perplexed as to why it continually sends sausage in your direction rather than, say, chicken nuggets, it is quite apparent that you neglected to read the sign. Its a sausage factory. Sausage is what it does.Expect sausage.

Put still another way: If America were an App, the devaluing of black life would not be a glitch, but a feature, programmed in from the beginning, with no patch or fix coming in a later editionat least not courtesy of the folks who designed it.

And please spare me the insistence that because Yanez is Latino, his treatment of Castile cannot have been rooted in race. Anti-blackness is no respecter of melanin count. It, like the overarching paradigm of white supremacy for which it serves as the most potent of fuels, is a contagion against which not only brown but even black too often prove defenseless. Nearly half of African Americans demonstrate implicit or subconscious biases against themselves in tests designed to ferret out such things, so the fact that a Latino male especially one serving in an overwhelmingly white suburban police force might internalize the same fears or dehumanizing biases of a white cop should hardly be a revelation. It was James Baldwin, after all, who insisted that the worst cops he remembered growing up in Harlem were black, because they were the ones who had the most to prove; specifically, to those above them, ever on the lookout for any evidence that their sympathies might reside with the people.

No, whether or not a phenomenon deserves the label of racism is not always dependent upon the color of the perpetrator. More so, it is dependent on the color of those disproportionately victimized by it. Were this not true then even the American system of chattel slavery could be acquitted on the charge of racism, since, after all, there were some black slaveowners, as well as some who were Native American. So too, Nazism could be acquitted on the charge of racism because there were Jewish Capos in the camps and some Jews in the German Army fighting for the Reich. But to deny the racist provenance of slavery here or the Holocaust of European Jewry there would be to assassinate language. What makes both examples of racism is not that whites were the only ones implicated in the suffering but that the targets in each case were racialized others. What made American slavery racist was the fact that although some blacks owned other blacks, they didnt also get to bid on whites down at the auction block. The system of chattel subordination did not run both ways. What made Hitlerism racist was the fact that although there were Jews who assisted in the oppression of Jews and fought for the government oppressing them, there were no Jews also allowed to march SS men into the gas chambers and slam the doors shut.

And what makes the killing of Philando Castile and so many others about racism, is that although sometimes the killers are people of color, the victims are disproportionately black and brown, especially in cases where there is no direct threat posed but fear is allowed to serve as an affirmative defense. What makes it about racism is that although there are plenty of white people killed by police, it is almost only white people who are able to brazenly brandish weapons without concern that they might be killed by police for doing so.

Second, by definition the only issue for any given shooting is whether or not the person shot by police could be reasonably perceived as posing a genuine threat to an officer or others. Crime rates have no role to play in assessing individual incidents. After all, if a white man pulls a gun on a cop and points it at them, the fact that in the aggregate black guys are seven times more likely than white guys to commit homicide (thanks to the correlation between homicide and various economic conditions disproportionately experienced by blacks), would hardly make it rational for the officer to calmly holster their weapon in deference to FBI statistical tables and abstract mathematical probabilities. Likewise, if a cop confronts a black person like Philando Castile who is courteous and actually informs the officer about his weapon and his license for it which again, is not what a cop-killer does,ever the fact that other black people who are not Philando Castile commit homicide seven times more often than white people would be irrelevant to what the officer should do in that moment. To suggest otherwise would be to allow cops to approach blacks on the street and blow their brains out on the daily, and so long as they only did it, say,sixtimes as often as they did it to whites, there would be no evidence of racial unfairness under the logic of the racism denialists and cop apologists who populate the far-right.

And please, no more questions about Why dont black people just respect authority, or do as theyre told by law enforcement? Because even when they do, this is what happens.Thisis why they run, cross the street, turn around and walk the other way, or engage in some other furtive movement as the police like to call it. Because even when theyve done nothing wrong, they cannot stake their lives on the dubious possibility that the officer they encounter will presume that. Indeed, the insistence for black folks to respect authority when that authority has such a long history of disrespectingthem is more than a tone-deaf stretch. It amounts to a demand that the African American community ignore its history entirely, and by history I mean even those things that happened last week, let alone last century. It amounts to a demand that some 40 million people adopt amnesia as a cultural virtue, and that their failure to do so will then be used against them when they fail to show sufficient deference to the very forces that have operated as their enemies for so long. Or even when they do.

And finally, no more insistence the next time this happens that the deceased was no angel. Because in the eyes of the schoolchildren who knew and loved Philando Castile as a valued, trusted and caring staff member who made their days brighter, he was very close to that. And yet he is still dead. Because anti-blackness doesnt care how you sag your pants or if you wear a tie to work. It doesnt care if you hustle CDs from the back of your car to help support your family or punch a clock everyday. It doesnt care how you play your music or if you say Yes Sir, and No Sir. It doesnt care that youre a doting father. It doesnt care that youre twelve years old. It doesnt care if youre an honor student or a dropout. It only cares that youre black.

And if you are, it only seeks to remind you of two things: first, that according to the founding logic of the culture in which you reside, you have no rights that white men are bound to respect; and lastly, that you are the sausage, and the machinery is operating exactly as designed.

Tim Wise is an antiracism educator and essayist. His Twitter and Facebook are both @timjacobwise and his website iswww.timwise.org

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Injustice and 'negrophobia': Here is why Philando Castile is dead and another police officer walked - Raw Story

Niwot resident and volunteer Riki Frea said she was completely shocked when she was told she had been selected as Grand Marshall for this years Niwot July 4 parade. The Niwot Community Association, which sponsors the parade, publicly announced its choice at the boards June 7 meeting, citing Freas hard work and enthusiasm for volunteering in the community.

Oh my goodness, Im just a Niwot mom who likes to be involved, Frea said. I have a lot of fun doing what I do, but this was totally unexpected!

Freas enthusiasm, can-do attitude and large network of friends and acquaintances in Niwot has led her to give her time and talents to Niwot Elementary School in many capacities, as well as volunteer with Girl Scouts Colorado, and most recently, spearhead the drive to raise over $250,000 for the new Childrens Park in Niwot.

Freas early volunteer efforts started with serving as room mom for her three children at Niwot Elementary, something she has done since 2010. I have the time to give as a stay-at-home mom, I like party and event planning and it gives me the chance to meet a lot of the other parents, Frea said. And I get to help with some of the educational aspects in the classroom, which is important to me.

She quickly joined the Niwot Elementary Parent Teacher Advisory Council and has chaired several fundraising projects for the school such as the grocery reward program, dining for dollars, online shopping and school supplies, the silent auction, seeking out corporate sponsorships, organizing a PTAC booth at the Rock & Rails concert series, and the Cougar campaign. In 2012 Frea led a fundraiser to benefit the Niwot Elementary School library, raising $12,600 to buy new books. Her willingness and abilities led to her serving as the PTACs vice president of fundraising from 2014 through 2016.

Frea had a hand in the recent 50th anniversary celebration of Niwot Elementary, serving as the parent representative on the committee planning the celebration. Frea also is the incoming PTAC president for the 2017-18 school year, and has participated in the school districts Leadership St.Vrain program.

But her favorite work for the school is being the box top lady.

I noticed the box top container at the school about six years ago, she said.I thought, Thats something I can do! So Frea created a bulletin board about the program to attract interest, ran monthly classroom contests to tap into some competitive spirit, gave prizes both small (pencils) and large (ice cream sundaes), and wore silly costumes at Halloween (and whenever she could) to build excitement and promote the program.

One day I was in the grocery store and a Niwot Elementary student tapped his mom and said, Hey look, theres the box top lady! I think thats a pretty good legacy, Frea laughed.

Freas work for the new Niwot Childrens Park happened serendipitously. My husband Bill and I were walking downtown and we started talking with Tim Wise outside his shop, Frea said. I told him that, as a mom, I was really excited about the proposed Childrens Park. He took that back to the Niwot Cultural Arts Association which was working on the proposal and I found myself recruited to work on the proposed park!

Frea was able to offer the committee her perspective of a parent with young children and helped research and choose what play structures would be included in the park. She then put her fundraising skills to use. She created a social media presence for the park effort on Facebook, set up and ran a fundraising website, gave several talks to groups in the area and networked with just about anyone I ran into or could think of. In the end, the committees efforts raised more than $250,000 for the park.

It was a lot more work than I expected, but it was really worth it in the end because the park is beautiful, Frea said.

Growing up, volunteering was not something Freas family did a lot of, she said. My parents were very busy with kids and work, and it just wasnt something they could do, she said. But as Frea earned her masters degree in counseling and behavior analysis, began working with children with autism, and then raising her own family, she realized how important it was to give time and effort to education and volunteering.

I want my children to see the importance of volunteering and giving back to the world, Frea said.I want them to be willing to reach out to others and volunteer for the causes they believe are important.

Freas husband, Bill, summed up her approach to volunteering in Niwot. Riki is truly proud of Niwot, and passionate about being a part of something she loves. She enjoys the people, the schools, and the community spirit she feels when she is walking downtown. This is what has driven her to accomplish so much, he said.

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