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Shawn Lawrence Otto (born April 21, 1961) is an American novelist, nonfiction author, filmmaker, political strategist, speaker, science advocate, and screenwriter and co-producer of the 2003 film House of Sand and Fog.
Otto co-founded and became the CEO of the Science Debate 2008. Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain participated in the debate.
Otto delivered keynotes at the 45th annual Nobel Conference, on "Democracy in the Age of Science",[1] at the United States National Academies, on "Examining the Mistrust of Science,",[2] the New York Academy of Sciences, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), and the European Conference of Science Journalists. He has discussed science and politics on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday.
Otto's work has been published in Science, Salon.com, Huffington Post, MinnPost.com, Issues in Science & Technology,[3] New Scientist, and Scientific American.[4][5]
Otto lives on a hobby farm near Marine on St. Croix with his wife, Rebecca Otto, a former Minnesota State Auditor and 2018 candidate for Governor.[6][7] Their home, called "Breezy", is passive and active solar, geothermal, wind-powered, and super-insulated house that they designed and built. Otto's family forefather, C.D. Gilfillan, co-founded the Republican Party of Minnesota.[8]
Otto is a past (2009–2011) Board Chair of the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
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