Generation 4 · Family Story
Palmer and Signe's grandson, Rod's son, and the builder-curator turning documents, photographs, recordings, travel, and family memory into a living archive.
Scott's story is about archive-building and movement: family roots, oral history, international service, and the work of connecting the archive.
Explore his career in open-government digital communications and public service in his Transparency & Service Story, and follow his full global travel route in his My Movements Around the World.
Watch the journey across the globe following my Timeline locations.
Scott Jeremy Stadum is born to Rodney and Kathy Stadum on May 3, 1977.
Childhood years in Guernsey County, Ohio.
Resided in the Caribbean during a family posting in English Harbour. See also Kathy Bode's biography and My Movements Around the World.
Returned to Cambridge, Ohio for a year before college.
Five years at Bowling Green State University developing digital media and coding projects.
Five months working alongside Kristin Stadum at the student newspaper The BG News at Bowling Green State University. See The BG News Era.
Suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul residence and digital work prior to international deployment. My Movements Around the World
Grassroots service compiling local Guyanese blog aggregators, supporting kids music camps, and organizing Timehri Film screenings.
First chapter in D.C., working in digital marketing, tools training, and nonprofit technology. Read the full story →
Resided in South America working on regional digital advocacy projects at Idealist.org. My Movements Around the World
Second D.C. chapter: led open-government advocacy and transparency manuals as a tools evangelist and writer at the Sunlight Foundation , then worked on digital strategy and communications at National Public Radio .
Resided in Eastern Europe with Transparency International, analyzing cybersecurity threat metrics and securing network infrastructure.
Brief residence in Rice County, Minnesota.
First Bay Area chapter, working on accessibility columns and disabled traveler advocacy. Read the story →
Returned to Rice County during this period, continuing archival and digital work near Kathy Bode.
Returned to the San Francisco Bay Area, establishing his current home and continuing digital archiving. My Movements Around the World
Planned audio story from reference packets about Rod's oral history, inherited documents, travel/service, and the archive build.
Scott's relationship and story graph connects people, places, and key transparency stories.
