I was born in Minneapolis in 1954; grew up in Valley City, North Dakota; graduated high school in Des Moines, class of 1972; graduated from Reed College in 1976 with a bachelor’s in history; married Leslie Olin from Boston in 1979; served as gunnery and electronics material officer on the USS KIRK based in Yokosuka, Japan, until 1982; earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Iowa in 1987; and taught politics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China, and Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Currently I work as principal at Puzzle Mountain Digital. document manager for the Health Insurance Exchange project with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. My wife and I have a son who lives in Washington DC, and a daughter in college. We live in a great house in Westwood, Massachusetts, southwest of Boston.
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To learn more about me, visit Puzzle Mountain Digital.
To get in touch with me, please send a message to sgreffenius@gmail.com. Thanks!
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