Editing 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
}}

'''David Allyn''' (born April 30, 1969) is an American author, educator, and consultant to nonprofit organizations.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{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}}</ref>

==  Personal life ==
Allyn is the stepson of the late [[John Wallach]], founder of the nonprofit organization [[Seeds of Peace]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seedsofpeace.org/node/1866 |title=Janet Wallach &#124; 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 }}</ref> 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).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oliverscholars.org/our-staff/|title=Staff – Oliver Scholars|website=Oliverscholars.org|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>

== Books and articles ==
Allyn is the author of four books, including ''[[Make Love, Not War]]''<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> and ''I Can't Believe I Just Did That'',<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Morris">{{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 }}</ref> 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'',<ref>[http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/0899764010370869v1]{{Dead link|date=August 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> ''The Journal of American Studies'',<ref>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
</ref> ''[[Teachers College Record]]'',<ref>Volume 107, Number 7 (2005)
</ref> ''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,<ref>{{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}}</ref> The History Channel,<ref>[https://us.imdb.com/title/tt1230048/] {{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref> and CNN.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> and won a Writer's Digest award.<ref>{{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}}</ref> His play ''Punctuated Equilibrium'' received a staged reading by the Hangar Theatre Lab in [[Ithaca, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hangartheatre.org/|title=Welcome|website=Hangartheatre.org|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref> His play ''Writers Colony'' appeared in the Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City,<ref>{{cite news |last=Haagensen |first=Erik |title=Writers Colony |url=http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/reviews/ny-theatre-reviews/e3ia13021641b2079d2646d6f9f1f854e99 |work=[[Backstage (magazine)|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 }}</ref> and ''Baptizing Adam''<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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."<ref name="Morris"/>

== Concepts ==
Allyn's original concepts include "[[Empathy|strategic empathy]],"<ref>{{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}}</ref> denoting the deliberate use of perspective-taking to achieve certain desired ends; "mission mirroring,"<ref>{{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 }}</ref> the phenomenon that occurs when mission-based organizations become plagued by the very problems they were created to solve; and "sexual optimism (pessimism),"<ref>{{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}}</ref> the view of human sexuality as benign (or dangerous).

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