Ryan Sommers Baum

Infobox actor
name = Ryan Sommers Baum


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birthdate = Birth date and age|1983|4|26|mf=y
location = Albany, New York
notable role = J.B. Halliburton in "The Famous Jett Jackson"Ryan Sommers Baum (born April 26, 1983) is an American former child actor who is best known as J.B. Halliburton on the Disney Channel original series The Famous Jett Jackson.

Biography

In 2001 Baum graduated from Guilderland High School, in Guilderland Center, New York. He then attended Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and graduated in 2005, with a BFA in Theatre. Baum is currently pursuing Master of Divinity studies at Pacific School of Religion, in Berkeley, California. He is dually affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and the United Church of Christ, a member of Johannesburg Monthly Meeting of Friends in South Africa and in care as a minister-in-formation with First Congregational UCC of Oakland, California.

While earning his undergraduate degree from NYU, Baum traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to study the cultural impact of performance poetry in the struggle against apartheid and in building the new post-apartheid South Africa. During his time there, he became actively involved in the ministry of the Johannesburg Quaker community, helping to use theater to educate township youth about HIV and AIDS, and volunteering to operate a mobile soup kitchen in inner-city Johannesburg. It was here that Baum felt his call to ministry.

In the summer of 2005, Baum worked as the director of the STAR (Summer Theater at the 'Rep) theater program in Albany, NY, in which teens from the area write and perform their own musical. The theme of their musical was mythology, and Baum brought some of the cultural knowledge he learned in South Africa into the show, including a folk song and story.

Baum is currently doing ministry in the city of Oakland, California in collaboration with First Congregational United Church of Christ and Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, building relationships with community members, especially youth, who are caught in cycles of violence, in order to provide compassionate pastoral presence and training in community and self transformation through active nonviolence.

He is a staff member at the College of Wooster

Baum was married to Molly Dowell, a student at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS), on August 18, 2007, in a private ceremony held in Atchison, Kansas. Baum currently lives on the SFTS campus in San Anselmo, California.

He has worked as a counselor at Friends Camp, a Quaker-themed camp in South China, Maine.

Filmography

*"" (2001).... J.B. Halliburton
*"Bad Haircut" (2001).... Neil

Television appearances

*"The Famous Jett Jackson (1998-2001)... J.B. Halliburton

References

[http://www.beatitudessociety.org/profile/ryan_dowell_baum Beatitudes Society Profile]

External links

*imdb name|id=0062129|name=Ryan Sommers Baum