David Allyn
{{short description|American director}}{{Infobox person
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|04|30}}
| education = Georgetown Day School, Brown University (BA), Harvard University (PhD)
| occupation = Author, Educator, Consultant
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David Allyn (born April 30, 1969) is an American author, educator, and consultant to nonprofit organizations.{{Cite news|url=http://community.resident.com/interview-with-david-allyn-ceo-of-oliver-scholars/|title=Interview with David Allyn, CEO of Oliver Scholars|date=2017-07-06|work=Resident Community|access-date=2017-08-31|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402042745/http://community.resident.com/interview-with-david-allyn-ceo-of-oliver-scholars/|archive-date=2018-04-02|url-status=dead}}
Personal life
Allyn is the stepson of the late John Wallach, founder of the nonprofit organization Seeds of Peace.{{cite web |url=http://www.seedsofpeace.org/node/1866 |title=Janet Wallach | Seeds of Peace |access-date=2009-06-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227044328/http://www.seedsofpeace.org/node/1866 |archive-date=2009-02-27 }} Allyn graduated from the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. He holds a BA from Brown University and a PhD from Harvard University. From 1996–1999, he taught at Princeton University. In 2014 he was named CEO of The Oliver Scholars Program. In February 2016 he was elected to the board of trustees of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).{{Cite web|url=https://www.oliverscholars.org/our-staff/|title=Staff – Oliver Scholars|website=Oliverscholars.org|access-date=22 July 2021}}
Books and articles
Allyn is the author of four books, including Make Love, Not War{{cite news |last=Tiger |first=Lionel |author-link=Lionel Tiger|title=Turned In, Turned On|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/19/reviews/000319.19tigert.html|work=The New York Times |date=March 19, 2000|access-date=January 29, 2010 }}{{cite journal |year=2002 |title=Book Reviews |journal=Peace & Change |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=641–667 |issn=1468-0130 |doi=10.1111/1468-0130.00249}} and I Can't Believe I Just Did That,{{Cite news|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58542-257-9|title=Nonfiction Book Review: I Can't Believe I Just Did That: How (Seemingly) Small Embarrassments Can Wreak Havoc in Your Life-And What You Can Do to Put a Stop to Them by David Allyn|newspaper=PublishersWeekly.com|access-date=2017-02-13|language=en}}{{cite news |last=Parmar |first=Neil |title=Self-Conscious? Get Over It|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200406/self-conscious-get-over-it|work=Psychology Today |date=May 1, 2004|access-date=January 29, 2010 }}{{cite news |last=Gizowska |first=Eva |title=Mind I'm so sorry, but do you mind reading this? Are you self-conscious, easily embarrassed, endlessly apologising? |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1845260.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102084203/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1845260.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |work=The Independent on Sunday |date=May 9, 2004 |access-date=October 19, 2009 }} and has served as a faculty member at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at Columbia University at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.{{cite news |last=Morris |first=Bob |title=The Age of Dissonance; Red-Faced to Meet You |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/style/the-age-of-dissonance-red-faced-to-meet-you.html |work=The New York Times |date=January 11, 2004 |access-date=October 19, 2009 }} His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and other publications. While an undergraduate at Brown University, Allyn co-authored a book on transferring from one college to another. He and his co-author (later wife) were profiled in The Washington Post and featured on CNN. He has also published articles in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,[http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/0899764010370869v1]{{Dead link|date=August 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} The Journal of American Studies,David Allyn, "Private Acts/Public Policy: Alfred Kinsey, the American Law Institute and the Privatization of American Sexual Morality,"
Journal of American Studies, Volume 30, Issue 03, December 1996, pp 405–428
Teachers College Record,Volume 107, Number 7 (2005)
The Advocate, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. As an expert on the 1960s, Allyn has appeared on Vh1,{{Cite web | url=https://variety.com/2008/scene/markets-festivals/sex-the-revolution-1200522571/ | title=Sex: The Revolution|website=Variety.com| date=2008-05-11}} The History Channel,[https://us.imdb.com/title/tt1230048/] {{dead link|date=July 2021}} and CNN.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4767830/|title="The Seventies" Battle of the Sexes (TV Episode 2015)|website=IMDb.com|access-date=22 July 2021}}
Plays
Allyn's play, Buying In, was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. His play, Commencement, was selected for the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120730075608/http://weekly.citypaper.com/Events/e3951/ICommencementI|url-status=dead|title=Baltimore Sun: Baltimore breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic|website=Baltimoresun.com|archive-date=30 July 2012|access-date=22 July 2021}} and won a Writer's Digest award.{{Cite web | url=http://www.writersdigest.com/2009-annual-competition-winners/annualwinners78_play | title=2009 Stage Play Script Winners|website=Writersdigest.com| date=2009-10-16}} His play Punctuated Equilibrium received a staged reading by the Hangar Theatre Lab in Ithaca, New York.{{Cite web|url=https://hangartheatre.org/|title=Welcome|website=Hangartheatre.org|access-date=22 July 2021}} His play Writers Colony appeared in the Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City,{{cite news |last=Haagensen |first=Erik |title=Writers Colony |url=http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/reviews/ny-theatre-reviews/e3ia13021641b2079d2646d6f9f1f854e99 |work=Backstage |date=July 15, 2009 |access-date=October 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304014421/http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/reviews/ny-theatre-reviews/e3ia13021641b2079d2646d6f9f1f854e99 |archive-date=March 4, 2012 }} and Baptizing Adam{{cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |title=A Study of Lonely Souls, One of Them With a Gun |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/movies/theater-review-a-study-of-lonely-souls-one-of-them-with-a-gun.html |work=The New York Times |date=August 30, 2002 |access-date=October 19, 2009 }} won the James H. Wilson Award for Best-Full Length Play. According to The New York Times, Allyn is "a wicked observer of self-conscious people at their less than best."
Concepts
Allyn's original concepts include "strategic empathy,"{{Cite web|url=https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_tao_of_doing_good|title=The Tao of Doing Good (SSIR)|website=ssir.org|language=en-us|access-date=2017-02-12}} denoting the deliberate use of perspective-taking to achieve certain desired ends; "mission mirroring,"{{Cite journal|last=Allyn|first=David|year=2010|title=Mission Mirroring: Understanding Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations|journal=Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly|volume=40|issue=4|pages=762–769|doi=10.1177/0899764010370869|s2cid=145136327 }} the phenomenon that occurs when mission-based organizations become plagued by the very problems they were created to solve; and "sexual optimism (pessimism),"{{Cite book|title=Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History|last=Allyn|first=David|publisher=Little, Brown|year=2000|location=New York}} the view of human sexuality as benign (or dangerous).
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