James O’Keefe who is an American political activist and provocateur who founded Project Veritas first gained national attention for his selectively edited video recordings of workers at Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) offices in 2009, his arrest and misdemeanor guilty plea in 2010 for entering the federal office of then-U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) under pretenses, and the release of misleading videos of conversations with two high-ranking, now former, NPR executives in 2011.
Where did James O’Keefe go to high school and college?
O’Keefe was born in Bergen County, New Jersey, and grew up in Westwood, New Jersey. He graduated from Westwood High School, where he showed an early interest in the arts, theater, and journalism. He then further his studies at Rutgers University in 2002 and majored in philosophy. After graduating from Rutgers, he worked for a year at the Leadership Institute (LI) in Arlington, Virginia, under media specialist Ben Wetmore, whom O’Keefe calls his mentor. The institute sent him to colleges to train students to start conservative independent newspapers, but, after a year LI officials asked him to leave.
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