Blogger Summit Participant Bios
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Aaron Silverstein
Alan Franklin
Amanda Michel
Andrés Duque
Andrés Duque currently coordinates Mano a Mano, a program of the Latino Commission on AIDS which has provided half a million dollars in capacity building funding to small grassroots Latino lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizations in New York. Andrés has also served on the board of several influential LGBT rights organizations including UNIDOS, the Audre Lorde Project, the Colombian Lesbian and Gay Association, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Out People of Color Political Action Committee. Through his work, the long time advocate has championed immigration rights and community political involvement and awareness in the Latino LGBT community throughout the United States as well as Latin America.
Andres blogs at http://blabbeando.blogspot.com
Baratunde Thurston
Bob Neer
Brandon Q. White
Brian Leubitz
I'm the founder of Calitics[1], the California community blog. I work for a few political campaigns in California.
Chris Bowers
Dave Dayen
I'm a TV editor and stand-up comic from Santa Monica, CA, who started blogging in April 2004. In addition to my own site, D-Day [2], I currently write at Calitics[3] and Digby's Hullabaloo [4]. I'm also a delegate to the Democratic State Central Committee in California, and I have done video editing projects for the ACLU, Courage Campaign, UNITE-Here, and can do the same for you!
Dean Barker
LN Rock
Faye Anderson
Faye M. Anderson is a citizen journalist, public policy and new media consultant, and public speaker. She shares news, information and trends that resonate with African American voters and political influentials. She is particularly interested in the intersection of technology, public policy and civic engagement.
Faye writes about politics for “The Ruckus,” a group blog launched by Newsweek and the Media Bloggers Association. She also writes a daily political blog for AOL Black Voices, the largest African American portal, and AOL Political Machine.
Faye was featured in the Washington Post story, "Storming the News Gatekeepers," and included in the first scholarly research examining the role of black bloggers and the blogosphere. She was credentialed to cover the “All-American Presidential Forums on PBS,” moderated by Tavis Smiley. She is a member of the Trotter Group of black newspaper columnists.
Faye wrote and produced Counting on Democracy,a documentary about the 2000 election debacle that was broadcast on PBS and Link TV.
Faye blogs at Anderson@Large.
Gabriel Rey-Goodlatte
Jerid Kurtz
Joe Bodell
Joel Silberman
John Erhardt
Juan Melli
Julia Rosen
Julie Fanselow
Karl-Thomas Musselman
Karl-Thomas Musselman was destined to become the first man on Mars having twice won the prestigious "Right Stuff" award at Space Camp. Al Gore changed all that when he won the 2000 election, sparking a undiscovered passion for politics which led Musselman to his current activism in grassroots Democratic politics. An early supporter of Howard Dean, he first experienced snow canvassing neighborhoods in Iowa and New Hampshire. He would later become Texas' youngest delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. In that presidential election, he helped organized one of the most successful student voter registration and GOTV drives ever at the University of Texas-Austin, with one campus precinct reporting 99.58% turnout.
Having written for Burnt Orange Report since 2003, Musselman became its second editor in the summer of 2005. Shortly thereafter, he spearheaded UT-Austin efforts against the state's constitutional ban on equal marriage rights resulting in a 1,000% increase in student turnout with an opposition vote averaging 85% on the measure. In 2006, he served as Tech Director for the Travis County Coordinated Campaign and wrote for the Secretary of State Project which elected 5 new Democratic officeholders in key states across the country. During this time he joined the steering committee of Democracy for Texas.
In 2007, Musselman took on the new role of Publisher of Burnt Orange Report upon his acceptance of employment at ActBlue in Cambridge, MA and graduation from UT-Austin as a Liberal Arts Honors Government major. He has since returned to his native Texas where he now serves as Online Coordinator for Rick Noriega's US Senate campaign.
Kenneth Quinnell
Kenneth Quinnell is a political science adjunct professor in Tallahassee, Florida. He is the founder and executive director of the Florida Progressive Coalition [5]. FPC has more than 70 members and runs a community blog, a Wiki on state and local politics, a virtual think tank, and a network of other blogs and allies.
Kenneth is also the founder and president of the Florida Democratic Party Netroots Coalition, a caucus inside the party designed to improve the use of the Internet by the Democratic Party and its affiliates in Florida. Kenneth is also a member of the Leon County Democratic Executive Committee, on the board of the state chapter of Democracy For America and a proud husband and father of three young progressives.
Kevin Myles
I started the Wichita NAACP Blog [6] primarily to chronicle day to day Social Justice and Advocacy work. I currently serve as the President of the Wichita Branch NAACP and the Political Affairs Chairman for the Kansas State Conference of the NAACP. I'm a former member of the National Board of Directors for American Mensa, a former Mensa Regional Chairman, and was a four-term President of the Wichita Chapter of Mensa.
Kyle Michaelis
Laura Packard
I'm helping NOI run the conference this weekend. Occasionally blog at Michigan Liberal, do a lot of behind the scenes work with progressive orgs and campaigns in Michigan. Expanded version of what I'm up to at http://www.laurapackard.com/. Friend me on facebook?
Laura Clawson
Manny Guzman
I've been blogging on immigration issues for the past several years, hoping to counter the nativism, racism and propaganda that is often found in the greater media scene. Home base is at Latino Político: http://www.latinopolitico.net, but also a contributor at Migra Matters, The Unapologetic Mexican and Booman Tribune. Locally, I try to maintain communication with grassroots groups that focus on the U.S./Mexico border so that the human rights aspect of the debate is front and center rather than just a footnote. It gives me an opportunity to spread the word to readers across the country about the bi-cultural identity that we enjoy in the desert southwest.
Marisa Trevino
Matt Singer
I started Left in the West (currently at http://www.leftinthewest.com) in 2002 in order to keep my writing skills up after I dropped out of college (the first time). LITW is a Montana-focused site.
Also, I run Forward Montana, a non-profit organization focused on engaging young progressives to get more involved in politics.
I cook a mean jambalaya.
Matt Glazer
Matthew Reichbach
Matthew is a college-age blogger based in Albuquerque, New Mexico who is one of the very few progressive political bloggers in New Mexico. In fact, one of the few political bloggers of any kind in New Mexico. Matthew's blog is New Mexico FBIHOP. Matthew also always wears a hat.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is the Publisher of blogACTIVE-- the web site that reports on hypocrites in the government and PageOneQ, the nation's largest progressive LGBT news aggregator and original content provider.
Prior to his current work, he was a fundraiser and non-profit executive for a variety of progressive causes. Over the past two decades, Rogers has served as the first development officer of the Harvey Milk High School, the Director of Development of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and managed major gifts for Greenpeace, the environmental organization.
Rogers has been appeared on CNN's NewsNight, Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes , National Public Radio, at New York University, and on numerous other television and radio programs. Rogers' work has been reported on in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune; he was profiled in GQ Magazine. Rogers was named as one of Genre Magazine's Men We Love.
Oliver Willis
Pam Spaulding
I'm the editor and publisher of Pam's House Blend (http://pamshouseblend.com), honored as "Best LGBT Blog" in the 2005 and 2006 Weblog Awards. The Blend, which averages 220,000 visitors a month, was launched in July 2004 as a personal response to the anti-gay state of the political landscape. I am also a regular contributor to the progressive blog Pandagon.net and have guest posted/contributed to Firedoglake, The Rude Pundit, The Bilerico Project, Glenn Greenwald's Unclaimed Territory on Salon and written for The Independent Weekly. I live in Durham, NC. More about me here: http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4
Patrick Crowley
- Patrick Crowley, http://www.rifuture.org *
I am an organizer for NEA Rhode Island, blogger for Rhode Island's premier political blog RIFuture.Org, and a columnist for Motif Magazine in Providence. And that is just what I do during the day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vllKoRAjCio
