Career
An alumnus of Seattle, Washington"s The Bush School and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he founded The Presidents with fellow Bush School alumnus Christopher Ballew. Dederer currently heads programming and editorial at Amazon Music and manages The Presidents" ongoing business interests. Dederer worked for Seattle web/mobile media company Melodeo from 2007 to 2010 as Vice President, Business Development.
Melodeo was acquired by Hewlett Packard in June, 2010.
He previously worked for four years as a public affairs consultant at Seattle firm Pyramid Communications. Prior to The Presidents" success, Dederer taught high school English at Kent Denver School and The Bush School, did public relations work on environmental issues, and attended graduate school in urban planning at the University of Washington.
On October 22, 2009, Dederer responded to questions made by users of the website reddit.
