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You'll find the Flinn Scholars community in every nook and cranny of the Internet.

For starters, visit the Flinn Foundation page on Facebook, follow @flinnscholars on Twitter, and--if you're a Scholar yourself--join the Scholars group on LinkedIn.

Want a quick answer to a burning question? You can reach me via email at mellsworth@flinn.org.

And who is this writing, anyway? Since 2007, I've been a part of the Flinn Foundation's communications team, writing about all of the Foundation's initiatives, including the Flinn Scholars.

I'm also a Flinn Scholar alum myself, from the class of 1993. After my undergraduate years in Arizona, I completed an MFA in creative writing at George Mason University in Virginia. Now and then, I do type things not entirely true.

Oct 10, 2008
Matt_badge-author Matt Ellsworth

And one time, guys with swords walked up and...

Tags: 99, jon gandomi, meet a flinn scholar, public policy, truman

We can’t tell you half of what Jon Gandomi (’99) told us about his adventures visiting all the places on the FAA’s Don’t-Go-There list. We can pretty much guarantee it would be redacted by Yossarian the Censor.

But even so, what we did manage to sneak into this Meet a Flinn Scholar profile is worth reading. And Jon delivered a couple of pictures that we've embedded below.

Good luck tracking down Mr. Gandomi from here on out. He’s now working about 23 hours a day in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator of Reconstruction and Stabilization. They’re the people who put back together failed states after wars and natural disasters and real-estate bubbles collapse and so forth.