| Frederick De Worken (US Peace Corps, Panama) |
 Fred was born on Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, South Dakota and raised on a three-acre farm in a redneck neighborhood of Amarillo, Texas. He and his world-class afro attended Alamo Catholic High School before being expelled for various pranks and concise criticism of the staff and its procedures. Having turned his afro in for something more up to date, Frederick finished high school at Truckee North Tahoe High School in Truckee, California. There, he found himself in the midst of a budding culture war as country parents tried comically to insulate their children from the east bay gangster rap brought in by the tourist snowboarders. From there he majored in Politics and Legal Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz where he joined a fraternity and rose to the esteemed office of vice-president, earning himself a seat at the right hand of the keg and an unlimited supply of pledge slave labor to fuel his ever expanding plans as chairman of fraternity philanthropy.Fred claims that he was compelled to leave his position upon his sudden and unexpected graduation in 1999 and to seek a position that paid in something other than beer and bragging rights. State Farm Insurance recognized his brilliance immediately and brought him on with a hefty signing bonus. He used his newfound access to vast corporate resources to further expand his philanthropic endeavors. In 2001 Fred was admitted to Santa Clara University School of Law and in 2006 he graduated Santa Clara's Leavey School of Business with a Master's of Business Administration, but not before starting a campus organization focused on the issues of corporate responsibility, environmental health and international development through business. Though at times irreverent and irascible, Fred has always placed an utmost importance upon service to community as the responsibility of all it was for these reasons that he decided to lend his efforts to the Community Empowerment Network and the concept of enabling people rather than patronizing them. In late October of 2006 Fred became a Peace Corps Volunteer serving in the district of Mariato in the province of Veraguas, Panamá, where he has been focusing on small business development. fdeworken@gmail.com
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