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Matthew Donovan brings over a decade of experience navigating the precarious terrain of paraacademic institutions and digital strategy, bridging the worlds of cultural criticism, scholarship, creative agencies, social research, and public intellectual work. His projects have ranged from creating activist oriented data tools that monitor legislation, Grammy-qualifying documentaries that critique systemic policing issues to running an international reading group through The New Centre, to launching a podcast that broke into the top 100 globally. I’ve critiqued cultural scenes through social media and found ways to transform online platforms into spaces of genuine dialogue and critique. His work combines the sociological and historical study of public intellectuals with a deeply personal, hands-on understanding of what it means to create—and sustain—a paraacademic life in a world resistant to its demands.