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Ben Valentine is an independent writer who studies how tech, creativity and politics intersect. Ben works with The Civic Beat and has written or spoken for SXSW, Salon, Hyperallergic, YBCA, and VICE to name a few. Ben also helped organize the World's First Tumblr Symposium with Hyperallergic, is an Internet Archive’s Tumblr resident, and was formerly a Tumblr Fellow for the 2014 Personal Democracy Forum.
By Ben ValentineBy Ben Valentine
Group Behind Oakland's Newest Mural Uses Walls to Depict Communities
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