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Ohio University, Athens OH.
Meeting comedian and activist Lee Camp in New York City last Wednesday was magical, especially with the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement this month.
Lee has been very active in the anti-wealth-inequality movement. On Jan. 17, he spoke to thousands of people gathering for "Occupy Congress" in Washington, D.C., calling the Occupy movement "a revolution of the mind" and praised the people for standing up against the corporations.
Born in Bethesda, Md., the son of a psychoanalyst and a social worker, Lee Camp is gifted with an insight for human weaknesses and the devotion to cure them. Somehow, he found a powerful weapon to fight against the powerful -- humor.
At the age of 14, Camp started to write comedy and soon became a humor columnist. On his 19th birthday, Camp began performing as a stand-up comedian. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he moved to New York City, where he went through intense training -- three shows per night...