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Richard V. Campagna, JD, Ph.D, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He graduated from Brown University in 1972 at the age of 19 with a B.A. in Political Science and minors in Spanish and Portuguese. In 1975 he concurently obtained a J.D. degree from St. John's University School of Law and an M.A. in Ibero-American Social Thought from New York University. Campagna went on to obtain a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University Teachers College and a "controversial" Ph.D. from the American College of Metaphysical Theology, after pursuing additional graduate study at C.C.N.Y., Columbia University, the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago (Returning Scholar Program).
Campagna is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Papiamentu and has a working knowledge of Russian, Polish and Catalan. He is an accomplished legal, literary and medical interpreter and translator. He also serves as a corporate spokesperson, stress manager, legal consultant and attorney, psychological counselor, college and career advisor, writer and college/MBA professor. He teaches law, philosophy, psychology, economics, finance and ethics at various institutions of higher learning. He is an avid traveller, having visited all 50 states and dependencies (on numerous occasions) and 199 foreign countries (some of which no longer exist).
Campagna comes from a long line of politicians and political activists and he served as the Libertarian Party's candidate for Lt. Governor of Iowa in 2002 and ran for Vice President of the United States in 2004, also as a Libetarian.
Campagna is the author of numerous books and monographs, including but not limited to:
The Gringo's Guide Travel Series
Caracas, California, New York, Bogota, Paris,Sao Paulo
and:
The Phenomenological Theory of Law
Hold All Commitments!
The Optimistic Existentialist
To Play Along the Path- The Multifarious Ps of Existential Philosophy & Practice
Beyond Ideology- The Genesis of An Existential Libertarian |