About

Josh King

Systems Engineer

Phone
(217) 344-0444 x13

Josh King is a technologist with an interest in social justice. A native of Illinois, Josh taught himself programming on an old Commodore 64 before attending the University of Illinois and earning a Bachelor's in Philosophy with a minor in Computer Science.

His strong record of using technology in the non-profit sector includes: serving as an Americorps VISTA Leader with the community-technology focused CTC*VISTA Project; designing and administering the computer systems of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center; serving as Treasurer and Developer at the Acorn Active Media Foundation; volunteering as Network Engineer on the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network Project (CUWiN); administering the Chambana.net community co-location project; helping to organize the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks; serving the Champaign-Urbana Telecommunication Commission's Broadband Advisory Committee; and being appointed an Adjunct Technologist of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.

Josh is also the webmaster for local Champaign-Urbana online magazine SmilePolitely.com. He likes good sci-fi novels, bad sci-fi movies, Dogfish Head and indy rock.