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John Dedrick is vice president and program director at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio. He has a longstanding research interest in the theory and practice of democracy and has worked closely with higher education professionals and community-based forum moderators on numerous scholarly and community-based research studies.

Dedrick has written on deliberative politics in The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Gastil and Levine, eds., Jossey-Bass, 2005), The Journal of General Education, and Deliberation and the Work of Higher Education: Innovations for the Classroom, the Campus, and the Community (Dedrick et al., eds., Kettering Foundation Press, 2008).

Dedrick is the board president of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, and he serves on the executive committee of Deliberative Democracy Consortium, the public policy committee of Philanthropy Ohio, the editorial board of the Journal of Public Deliberation and the editorial advising board of The Journal of General Education. He is also a fellow at Fielding Graduate University, where he leads seminars on topics including deliberation, dialogue, and civic engagement.

Dedrick received a BA and MA from the College of William and Mary and an MA and PhD in political science from Rutgers University.