Biography for John Karl Fredrich       

Born Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1946.

Education:

• Graduated Washington High School, Milwaukee Public Schools, 1964
• Graduated Stanford University
• Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Political Science, 1968
• Master of Arts in Education, Stanford School of Education, 1979
• (During gap decade, 1968 to 1978, I traveled the world and US and did carpentry, gardening, house painting, truck driving and politics.)

Career:

• California Teaching Credential; Lifetime, Social Science and Speech.
• Taught at the secondary level, the last 20 years at Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, California,
  United States history, United States government,                       World history, and Far East Asia history and culture
• Instructional Supervisor (Department Chair) in Social Studies, 2003-2005

Community Service:

• First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto; Sunday school teacher, usher, deacon, social service committee member, 1975-2005
• Siddha Meditation Center Co-Leader, Palo Alto, 1982 – 1985
• Urban Ministry Board of Directors, 1986
• South Bay Sanctuary Board of Directors, 1987
• Union organizer, Palo Alto Educators Association substitute teachers unit in the 1980’s, and PAEA Representative Council member, 1995-2005; current member Cal-RTA, Division #54, California Retired Teachers’ Association

Political Action:

• Member, October 17th Mobilization to End the War, 1967
• Volunteer with Pete McCloskey’s 1972 Congress campaign
• Volunteer with David Harris’s 1976 Congress campaign
• Candidate for United States Congress House of Representatives, 1974 and 2018.
• Candidate for Palo Alto City Council, 1975, 1977, 1981, 2003, 2014, 2016
• Unsuccessful attempt to run for President in 2020 as a non-partisan Favorite Son candidate in the state of California
• Self-published biography on philosophy, political theory, and economics,  Delusion and Abandonment, under pseudonym, Jean Valjean: First Edition, 2017; Second Edition, 2019.