Art Bamford is a doctoral candidate in Media Studies at University of Colorado-Boulder and a senior research fellow at The Center for Media, Religion, and Culture. He holds an M.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Denver, where he worked as a lead researcher on the Estlow Center's "Parenting in a Digital Age" project. Art has also completed an M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary and serves as a contributing writer and research assistant for the Fuller Youth Institute. He has previously spent several years working in public relations and marketing in Chicago, and moonlights as a musician and visual artist.