Speaker:  Ron Nunn
Date: Tuesday, 7 Oct 2014
Time: 7:00 pm

Location:  Sumner School (see directions below)

Pre-meeting Venue: Bua Thai 

1635 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

Dupont Circle Metro

Biography:

My anthropology studies started when I was in high school in what is called in British terminology a "Hill Station" called Kodaikannal in Tamil Nadu, South India. I did my first excavation on an Iron Age burial site. I later majored in anthropology at Auburn University in Alabama with a minor in agriculture. In 1981 I started graduate work at American University where I received an M.A. I worked with the US Dept. of Agriculture and then was hired to work in Kenya under a USAID project to help computerize the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health. After the USAID contract ended I became a consultant and then an entrepreneur starting a private computer business in Nairobi. In 1994 I started the first "commercial" e-mail service in Kenya known as ThornTree Communications. In 1998 I began a business Known as "AnthroTours" in which I re-discovered my interest in Archaeology taking tour groups to Koobie Fora on Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya and to Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. In 2000 I returned to the United States and began doing contract archaeology in the Washington Area. In 2003 I joined Montgomery College and continue doing archaeology in the area with students.

How to get there:  The Sumner School is located at 1201 17th St NW (corner of 17th St and M St NW).  The entrance to the meeting area is on 17th St under the black metal stairway. Directions from Metro Red Line: From Farragut North station, take either L St exit, walk one block east to 17th St, turn left and walk 2 blocks north.  Enter the building through the double doors under the black metal staircase.  MEETING ROOM:  Rotating Gallery G-4 (ground floor).