Marty Rippens

Marty Rippens heads up the Education Services team at iFixit, where he directs the University Technical Writing Program and develops resources for students and instructors in support of iFixit’s mission.

An experienced educator keenly interested in the intersection of human learning, emerging technologies, and sustainability, he co-founded and served as Lead Teacher of the Academy of Environmental and Social Policy, which evolved from a small learning community of 400 students on a large urban campus to a magnet high school in Los Angeles.

Marty is an alumnus of Pomona College and holds graduate degrees in Education from UCLA and in English (with an emphasis on the teaching of writing) from Georgetown University.

A former member of Gamelan Sekar Jaya, a lifelong booksawyer, and a self-avowed family man,* Marty enjoys tinkering in the garage with his three school-aged children; touring and commuting by bicycle; getting lost on hikes with his life partner; advocating for safe routes to school in his community; and quietly listening to the mountains and the sea.

Articles:

• Fixing Dad’s Bike: Repair in Remembrance of My Father
• A Fixer Makes It Work
  

Academic Papers:

• Human-Centered Service-Learning in the Online Environment: A Model for Building Relationships Between Industry and Academic Partners in a Collaborative Technical Writing Project
• Industry Innovation and Classroom Constraints: Infusing Real-World UX into the University Classroom via iFixit's Technical Writing Project
  

Press:

• A New Generation of Students Is Teaching Us How to Reduce E-Waste
  
  

*His family means the world to him, and he’s inspired daily by their irrepressible exuberance for life, their unquenchable curiosity about everything under the sun (and over it, and including it), and their overwhelming optimism no matter the odds. He just loves them to bits.