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Pete Davis is a writer and reformer from Falls Church, Virginia. He has co-founded a variety of projects: CommonPlace, a web platform for local community engagement; Getaway, the nation's first-ever venture-backed tiny house startup; and The Democratic Alternative, a policy network for insurgent Democrats.He is the author of Our Bicentennial Crisis: A Call to Action for Harvard Law School's Public Interest Mission, a book on reviving Harvard Law School's public interest mission; and the co-author of How To Get Away: Finding Balance in our Overworked, Overcrowded, Always-On World, a book articulating Getaway's philosophy of balancing technology and disconnection, city and nature, and work and leisure.His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Daily News, Aeon, The Guardian and America Magazine. He was the host of the Harvard Law Forum from 2016-2018 and is currently the co-host of the Current Affairs podcast. From 2013-2014, he served as the labor and poverty coordinator for Ralph Nader's Center for Study of Responsive Law. He graduated from Harvard College in 2012 and Harvard Law School in 2018.
