Harry Merritt

Harry is the Project Coordinator of CivWorld at Dēmos and Special Assistant to Benjamin R. Barber. Having been part of the CivWorld team since January 2010, Harry manages the social media presence and websites of CivWorld and the Interdependence Movement, and coordinates the events and youth outreach of the Interdependence Movement.

Harry has previously worked as an intern for the Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Riga, Latvia. He holds an M.A. in German and European Studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a B.A. in Political Science and Russian Studies from Eckerd College. In June 2010, Harry's article "Colony of the Colonized: the Duchy of Courland's Tobago Colony and Contemporary Latvian National Identity" was published in Nationalities Papers.