Thomas Tresser
Chicago
Civic educator. Public defender. Creativity champion. Community builder.
Tom Tresser (http://www.tresser.com) is an educator, organizer, creativity champion, public defender and fighter of privatization. He has been doing civic engagement and grassroots democracy efforts for over 40 years. His first voter registration campaign was in 1972. In July of 2013 he and Benjamin Sugar opened the CivicLab (http://www.civiclab.us) in Chicago's West Loop as a co-working space dedicated to collaboration, education and innovation for civic engagement and social justice.