Rick Brooks recently retired after 26 years as an outreach program manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He worked in youth and community development, health promotion, and social marketing in the United States and abroad.
Co-founder of the Little Free Library movement, Rick now lives in Princeton, Illinois and runs Midwest Partners, a civic engagement group with an office in the Amtrak Depot. He is a 1969 anthropology and education graduate of Beloit College.