John Francis Rooney V

John Rooney was born and raised in Philadelphia. After graduating from Temple University with a B.A. in Sociology, John spent two years working with AmericaCorps, to engage students in urban Philadelphia schools in 2005 – 2006 with City Year Philadelphia, and in 2006-2007 as a teacher at the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School. As part of that work, John organized community service projects and developed a class that uses hip-hop music and other urban art forms to encourage students to be aware of the problems in their communities and to be active in solving those problems.