Alexia Parks
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Alexia Parks is an American futurist, an expert on gender equality, United Nations Mentor, and founder of 10TRAITS Leadership Institute from Boulder, Colorado.
Parks founded "Votelink.com", the first electronic democracy website in 1995. She was called "one of 50 people who matter most on the Internet" by Newsweek. That same year, Parks was awarded the "BEST Interactive Site of the Year” by Global Network Navigator. Parks official government online hearings were called “apparently the nation's first” by Neal R. Peirce. Lorrie Cranor described Parks work as, “perhaps the best example of such Web-based voting.” Bloomberg News referred to Parks "Laptop Brigade." She serves as a Virtual Mentor with the United Nations Habitat youth mentorship programme.
Biography
Parks was born to John and Janet Delmonte in California. She used the name Alexis Parks in the 1970s, and modified it to "Alexia" in 1994. She received a B.A. in English Literature and completed coursework on a master's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Career
Parks has worked as a science journalist, magazine columnist, and served as a special correspondent for the national desk of The Washington Post.
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