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Contents 1 2007 NOI Summer Campaign Boot Camp 1.1 Katie Allen 1.2 Rachel Allison 1.3 Rob "Biko" Baker 1.4 David Boundy 1.5 Brent Blackaby 1.6 Darcy Burner 1.7 Dan Castleman 1.8 Nita Chaudhary 1.9 Mike Conlow 1.10 Courtney Dozier 1.11 Cammie Croft 1.12 Phil De Vellis 1.13 Lola Elfman 1.14 Zack Exley 1.15 Jennifer England 1.16 Natalie Foster 1.17 Judith Freeman 1.18 Amy Gershkoff 1.19 Yair Ghitza 1.20 Keith Goodman 1.21 Adam Green 1.22 Peter D. Greenburger 1.23 James E. Hannaway 1.24 Tate Hausmann 1.25 Josh Hendler 1.26 Jamie Henn 1.27 Maren Hesla 1.28 Rachel Hope 1.29 Marc Laitin 1.30 Steve Jarding 1.31 Rosalyn Lemieux 1.32 Tom Lindenfeld 1.33 Chris Mann 1.34 Dan Mannat 1.35 Susan Markham 1.36 Amanda Michel 1.37 Lauren Miller 1.38 Daniel Mintz 1.39 John Miyasato 1.40 Frank O'Brien 1.41 Jason Ost 1.42 Laura Packard 1.43 Mike Podhorzer 1.44 Ari Rabin-Havt 1.45 Joe Rospars 1.46 Katelyn Sabochik 1.47 Mike Sager 1.48 Cliff Schecter 1.49 Madeline Stanionis 1.50 Matt Stoller 1.51 Marty Stone 1.52 Brian Stults 1.53 Mark Sullivan 1.54 Tanya Tarr 1.55 Stephanie Taylor 1.56 Jaim Tincher 1.57 Jessica Vanden Berg 1.58 Ben Weisberg 1.59 Hilary Zwerdling 2 March 2007 Online Organizing & Tech Training 2.1 Michael Bassik 2.2 Ivan Boothe 2.3 Nita Chaudhary 2.4 Peter Churchill 2.5 Heather Cronk 2.6 Colin Delany 2.7 Zack Exley 2.8 Susan Finkelpearl 2.9 Judith Freeman 2.10 Margot Friedman 2.11 Steve Geer 2.12 Scott Goodstein 2.13 Adam Green 2.14 Greg Greene 2.15 David Grossman 2.16 Chris Hughes 2.17 Clay Johnson 2.18 Rosalyn Lemieux 2.19 Peter Leyden 2.20 Dan Manatt 2.21 Tom Matzzie 2.22 Amanda Michel 2.23 Lauren Miller 2.24 Frank O'Brien 2.25 Nico Pitney 2.26 Ari Rabin-Havt 2.27 Jeff Regen 2.28 Kevin Reid 2.29 Simon Rosenberg 2.30 Alan Rosenblatt 2.31 David Salie 2.32 Ali Savino 2.33 Michael Silberman 2.34 Madeline Stanionis 2.35 Matt Stoller 2.36 Tim Tagaris 2.37 Usha Venkatachallam 2.38 Michael Ward 3 August 2006 Internet Campaign Training 3.1 Jerome Armstrong 3.2 Ben Brandzel 3.3 Brendan Bush 3.4 Zack Exley 3.5 Judith Freeman 3.6 Adam Green 3.7 Greg Greene 3.8 Josh Hendler 3.9 Marc Laitin 3.10 Rosalyn Lemieux 3.11 Tom Matzzie 3.12 Amanda Michel 3.13 Aaron Myers 3.14 Frank O'Brien 3.15 Eli Pariser 3.16 Ari Rabin-Havt 3.17 Benjamin Rahn 3.18 Joe Rospars 3.19 Mary Shull 3.20 Madeline Stanionis 3.21 Tim Tagaris 3.22 Kevin Thurman 3.23 Ann E. Yoders 3.24 Jerome Armstrong 3.25 Ben Brandzel 3.26 Brendan Bush 3.27 Zack Exley 3.28 Judith Freeman 3.29 Adam Green 3.30 Greg Greene 3.31 Josh Hendler 3.32 Marc Laitin 3.33 Rosalyn Lemieux 3.34 Tom Matzzie 3.35 Amanda Michel 3.36 Aaron Myers 3.37 Frank O'Brien 3.38 Eli Pariser 3.39 Ari Rabin-Havt 3.40 Benjamin Rahn 3.41 Joe Rospars 3.42 Mary Shull 3.43 Madeline Stanionis 3.44 Tim Tagaris 3.45 Kevin Thurman 3.46 Ann E. Yoders 4 Inaugural Training, March 2006 4.1 Katie Allen, DNC 4.2 Duncan "Atrios" Black, atrios.blogspot.com 4.3 Jerome Armstrong , www.mydd.com 4.4 Raghu Devaguptapu, DLCC 4.5 Zack Exley , NOI 4.6 Judith Freeman , NOI 4.7 Sean Gagen, Grassroots Solutions 4.8 Yvonne Garrett, OMP 4.9 Josh Hendler, DNC 4.10 Mary Hodge , Campaign Corps 4.11 Tierney Hunt, MRP 4.12 Aldon Hynes, Smart Campaigns 4.13 Ben Jones, EMILY's List 4.14 Judd Legum, Center for American Progress 4.15 Rosalyn Lemieux, Moveon.org 4.16 Tom Lindenfeld, LSG Strategies 4.17 Susan Markham, Campaign Corps 4.18 Tom Matzzie, MoveOn.org 4.19 Aaron Meyers, Fmr. Internet Director, Edwards campaign 4.20 Amanda Michel, Berkman Center 4.21 Laurie Moskowitz, Field Works 4.22 Frank O'Brien, OMP 4.23 Ramona Oliver, EMILY's List 4.24 Ari Rabin-Havt, DNC 4.25 Debra Rosen, M+R 4.26 Josh Ross, Mayfield Strategy 4.27 Sultan Shakir, Human Rights Campaign 4.28 Madeline Stanionis, Donor Digital 4.29 Matt Stoller, www.mydd.com 4.30 Andrew Stone, M+R 4.31 Tim Tagaris, DNC 4.32 Sujata Tejwani, 5 Past Guest Consultants

2007 NOI Summer Campaign Boot Camp

Katie Allen

Katie Allen works at the DNC as an analyst on the National Voter File Project. In her current role, she manages the national front end interface of the voter file, data acquisition and distribution, and analytic projects. Katie became addicted to field in 2000 when she worked for a Congressional Primary Candidate that won by only 146 votes. After this election she gave up her GRE class and spent the next few cycles helping elect Democrats in New Jersey. In late 2003 she moved to Iowa to help organize the large volunteer operation in Iowa for Howard Dean’s Presidential Campaign. She then moved to sunny Florida, to mobilize progressive voters in the infamous I-4 corridor, also known as the Tampa Bay Area for America Coming Together (ACT). She survived four hurricanes and returned to New Jersey where she lent her talents to the New Jersey Democratic Party both as campaign manager in the 38th legislative district and as Field Director in the largest swing county in the state for Jon Corzine's gubernatorial bid.

Rachel Allison

Rachel Allison is an independent Consultant at Online fundraising and advocacy. She has helped national non-profits like Amnesty International for over 5 years, ACLU, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Human Rights Campaign and Earthjustice expand their online programs and increase returns from their online fundraising, advocacy and list-growth efforts.

Rob "Biko" Baker

Rob "Biko" Baker, Organizing Director, works outta: Milwaukee, WI & Los Angeles, CA. A nationally recognized hip-hop political strategist, Rob 'Biko' Baker is one of the most energetic young activists in the country. This past year Biko served as the Deputy Publicity Coordinator and Young Voter Organizer for the Brown and Black Presidential Forum (a nationally televised presidential debate which aired on msnbc). He was also the lead organizer for Slam Bush, a national rap and poetry battle which featured hip-hop heavy hitters Chuck D and Wordsworth. Biko is currently the league's Institute Director, as well as a national organizer for the National Hip Hop Political Convention. During this past fall, Biko served as a field director for the Young Voter Alliance, a federal 527, responsible for producing over 14,000 votes in Milwaukee's most socio-economically depressed wards. Biko holds a B.A. in Political Science and Africology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a M.A. in African American Studies from UCLA, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in history from UCLA. Additionally, Biko is a frequent contributor to The Source

David Boundy

David Boundy has joined the DNC as Political Director. Boundy was formerly a partner at Grassroots Solutions. Boundy brings extensive experience in politics, technology, grassroots organizing and field operations. As the AFL-CIO's Campaign Director and Deputy Political Director from 1996 – 2005, Boundy helped design and direct the AFL-CIO's successful field programs. Boundy also served at the U.S. Department of Labor in the Clinton Administration, and he worked on the Clinton/Gore and Dukakis/Bentsen Presidential campaigns. He has also managed and consulted on several state and local campaigns.

Brent Blackaby

Brent Blackaby most recently directed online fundraising and supporter acquisition efforts for the Clark for President campaign, where we raised $7 million online (out of $17 million for the total campaign) and built a database of 200,000 online supporters. He is a co-founder of Blackrock Associates, LLC, a political consulting firm focused on online fundraising and supporter acquisition for Democratic candidates. Prior to the Clark campaign, he was an online marketing consultant with Delphinity, LLC; served as Director of Marketing at Trigo Technologies, an enterprise software company recently acquired by IBM; served as Senior Product Marketing Manager for E*TRADE, where he launched and managed the Power E*TRADE program for active traders; and served as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company.

Darcy Burner

Darcy Gibbons Burner is a Democrat from Carnation, Washington. She was a candidate for Washington's 8th congressional district in 2006, but lost to Republican Dave Reichert. In March 2007 she filed her intention to run in the 2008 race for the same district. She worked for a dozen years in high technology including five years at Microsoft as a Group Program Manager, working on .NET. Burner left Microsoft in 2004 to enter politics. In high school, Burner was a National Merit Scholar. She worked multiple jobs, both part time and full time, to earn her way through Harvard, graduating in 1996 with a B.A. in computer science and economics. Her jobs included working for Lotus Development, Asymetrix, and, starting in 2000, as a lead product manager for Microsoft .NET. Burner married in 1993. She and her husband Michael have a son, Henry, born in 2003. They live outside Carnation, Washington.

Dan Castleman

Dan Castleman serves as Deputy Directory of Data and Targeting at America Votes, a coalition of progressive partner groups focused on coordinating voter contact programs. There he does everything from processing voter and members lists to data modeling and helping plan partner programs. Before AV, Dan worked as a technology consultant in Boston where he assisted small non-profits in using voter files and building a web presence. Not only is Dan a NOI trainer, he is also an alum.

Nita Chaudhary

Chaudhary runs campaigns on civil liberties, Censure, and other issues for Moveon.org. In the past she worked for the DNC and the People for the American Way. At PFAW she held several positions, including Media Research Analyst, Web Content Manager, and Online Organizer. Nita is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, CT, with a degree in Political Science and Women's Studies.

Mike Conlow

Courtney Dozier

Courtney Dozier is currently the Political Director for Governor Mark Warner's Forward Together PAC. Prior to returning to her native Virginia in early 2007, she spent 2006 developing a taste for Iowa corn and an appreciation for mid-western values. Courtney worked as an in-kind from Virginia Governor Mark Warner to the Iowa State Senate Democratic Caucus in 2006 and helped to flip the Chamber from 25-25 to a controlling margin of 30-20. Additionally, while in Iowa, she helped lay the groundwork for an organization in anticipation of a possible Presidential bid from Governor Warner. Before moving to Iowa, Courtney served as the Caucus Director for the Wisconsin State Senate Democratic Committee in 2005-2006 and enjoyed more Wisconsin cheese than she should probably admit. Courtney is a true believer in the importance of grassroots organizing and has worked at different levels, from organizer to director, in field programs up and down the east coast. In 2004 she joined up with America Coming Together (ACT) and served as the Deputy Field Director in West Virginia. She's also done work with the Virginia Democratic House Caucus where she was part of a team that made net gains in that chamber for the first time in 28 years. Courtney has made 9 moves to 7 states in the last 5 years and she wouldn't change any minute of it.

Cammie Croft

Cammie Croft joined OMP, a full-service fundraising and communications agency, in 2006 fresh off an election victory in Seattle as the campaign manager in a crowded state legislative race. As the Senior Account Excecutive of the Online Services Department at OMP, Cammie brings a breadth of campaign strategy, planning and development knowledge to our team. She has several years of campaign experience in both the non-profit and political realms, including work as a top performing field organizer in MoveOn's 2004 "Leave No Voter Behind" campaign. Cammie is a graduate of the University of Washington and an alum of the New Organizing Institute.

Phil De Vellis

Philip de Vellis is the creator of the "Vote Different" ad, which he posted online under the pseudonym ParkRidge47. The ad, which mashed up Apple's iconic "1984" spot with footage from Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign website, has received more than 3 million views on YouTube and was featured on every major US television network, cable news channel, newspaper, and political blog. The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a watershed moment in 21st century media and political advertising." De Vellis previously worked as a senior strategist at Blue State Digital, a progressive internet consulting firm. He was director of Internet communications for Sherrod Brown's successful 2006 U.S. Senate race in Ohio, deputy internet communications director for Wal-Mart Watch, and was deputy field director for Cuyahoga County, Ohio on the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign. Prior to his full-time work in politics, he was a freelance video editor and motion graphics designer in his home town of Los Angeles. De Vellis graduated from UCLA with a BA in history.

Lola Elfman

Lola Elfman is Consultant at M+R Strategic Services. She recently joined the M+R eCampaigns team hot off the campaign trail from her home state of California, where she served as Internet Director on the Phil Angelides for Governor Campaign through November 2006. A former art teacher with a passion for politics and social change, Lola develops creative ways for M+R clients to educate and engage their supporters online. Prior to working with the Angelides campaign, Lola served as the web specialist on a Senate campaign in Illinois. She is a graduate of Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Zack Exley

Zack Exley is a Senior Strategist with OMP, a DC-based communications and fundraising firm, and President of the New Organizing Institute, as well as a Co-Founder and Board Member. He coordinated online efforts for the British Labor Party's 2005 re-election campaign, and was Director of Online Organizing and Communications at Kerry-Edwards 2004. Before that he served as Organizing Director at MoveOn.org, and played a part in early Dean Internet strategy. He broke ground for politics on the Internet in 1999 with GWBush.com, a parody site that drew a precedent-setting attack from the Bush campaign – and with some of the first experiments in national online organizing. Zack worked as a union organizer for several years around the Midwest and South in the mid-90's, and also worked as a computer programmer in the financial sector.

Jennifer England

Jennifer England has joined the PA League of Young Voters as the new Director of Communication, the League announced today. She has been volunteering for the League and sitting on the executive committee since 2004.Jennifer originally from Bucks County, PA, moved to Pittsburgh in 1994 to work on a doctorate in American History at the University of Pittsburgh. As a graduate student at Pitt she focused on American Social Movements and Women’s History. While working on her doctorate she also taught History at Pitt, Carnegie Mellon University and Waynesburg College. While working on her dissertation, she decided to completely switch directions and entered the world of professional communications. As an Account Supervisor for Shorey Public Relations, a PR firm with headquarters in Saratoga Springs, NY and Washington, DC, her clients included government and cultural institutions, along with corporate clients. The Valerie McDonald Roberts Campaign for Lieutenant Governor provided her an opportunity to bring her communication expertise to Pennsylvania politics. Jennifer has also been active in the local community through volunteer organizing with the Campus Coalition for Peace and Justice, Pittsburgh Free Mumia Chapter, and several political campaigns both national and local. She has been on the Executive Committee of the League since 2005.

Natalie Foster

Judith Freeman

Judith Freeman is the co-founder and Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute, a training, research and development organization for technology-enabled organizers, activists, staff, and leaders. Previously, she was the senior political strategist at the AFL-CIO, where she also co-founded the Analyst Institute, an organization that provides results-based voter contact experiment design and support to organizations and analytic professionals. During the 2004 presidential election, she worked on the Kerry campaign's internet operations. She advises political campaigns, unions and non-profit organizations on organizing, campaign strategy and technology infrastructure. She worked for 5 years in technology at the University of Chicago where she also organized with human rights and social justice organizations.

Amy Gershkoff

Senior Associate Amy Gershkoff provides strategic advice and analysis for Democracy Corps and other national non-profit organizations, including MoveOn.org and Women's Voices Women's Vote. Gershkoff also provides consultation on voter targeting and segmentation using data mining techniques and statistical analysis.

Yair Ghitza

Yair creates and implements voter and donor analysis models and works on all research projects. Yair has led our modeling effort in more than a dozen states in 2006 and has developed our GIS and innovative data visualization techniques. Previously, Yair worked as Data Analyst for QRS Newmedia. He joined QRS in August 2004 as part of the Kerry/Edwards '04 Presidential Campaign, where he tracked Satellite TV and Radio earned media programs, produced detailed reports relating to outreach efforts, and supported technical needs of QRS staff at the Campaign. In addition to his work on the Campaign, Yair contributed analytical expertise, conducted client research, and assisted in proposal development and technology support. Prior to joining QRS, Yair was a visiting research assistant in the Cognitive Machines group at MIT's Media Lab, conducting research in artificial intelligence and computer vision. He also served as Director of Special Projects at the Democratic National Convention, 2004. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 2003 with a B.S.E. in Computer Science.

Keith Goodman

Keith Goodman founded Bullseye Political Group LLC in late 2005 to help push the adoption of advanced research and microtargeting throughout progressive politics. He has been been doing microtargeting work since 2004, when he got his start in the AFL-CIO's excellent political program by contstructing a battleground microtargeting regime successfully employed by the Labor 2004 political program. Prior to this, he worked extensively doing grassroots campaign work and believes strongly in the power of direct voter contact to alter the course of campaigns and our country. A native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, you'll find him rooting for the Tigers, Pistons, and the sad-sack Detroit Lions.

Adam Green

Adam Green is a self-described “pro bono philosopher.” A native of New Jersey, he attended law school at the University of Virginia and did his undergraduate work at The George Washington University – where he studied political communications and economics. He currently serves as Civic Communications Director for MoveOn.org Civic Action. Previously, he was Communications Director for the New Jersey Democratic State Committee and was the DNC’s Press Secretary in Oregon during the 2004 presidential campaign.

Peter D. Greenburger

Peter brings over a decade of political experience to the new Google Elections & Issue Advocacy sales team. He joined Google in May 2007 to build and manage the new team dedicated to introducing Google solutions to political campaigns, committees, and issue advocacy groups. Prior to joining Google, Peter worked to grow the public affairs division of New Media Strategies, a web 2.0 marketing firm, working with clients such as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Discovery Networks, Ford Motor Company, the Granholm for Governor campaign, Merck, Inc., Wachovia, the Washington Redskins, and XM Satellite Radio. Over the ten years before joining New Media Strategies, Peter bounced around the country working on presidential, gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and Congressional campaigns. He has worked in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania (with a brief stint in Florida for the 2000 recount). Most recently, Peter managed Congressman Brad Carson's 2004 United States Senate campaign in Oklahoma. Though unsuccessful, the Carson race was named the best-run Democratic Senate campaign of the 2004 cycle by political analyst Stu Rothenberg. In between campaigns, Peter worked in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs during the Clinton Administration as the Director of Congressional Correspondence. In this role, Peter coordinated all written communications between the White House and the Congress. Peter graduated from Yale University and earned a master's degree with distinction in Comparative Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He lives on Capitol Hill with his wife and new baby boy.

James E. Hannaway

Tate Hausmann

James Hannaway is the Iowa Region Coordinator for Students for Barack Obama, as well as Chair of the Minnesota College Democrats. Previously, he worked on the 2006 Minnesota DFL Youth Coordinated Campaign. He is a student at Carleton College.

Josh Hendler

Josh Hendler currently serves as Director of Engineering at the Democratic National Committee, working as the project manager for the National Voter Database project. Prior to joining the DNC, Josh most recently directed Internet technology on the British Labor Party's re-election campaign. He was Manager of Software Development for Kerry-Edwards 2004, overseeing the development of organizing and online fundraising applications. Josh also served as a developer and program manager of open source efforts at the Clark 2004 campaign in Little Rock during the primaries. Before entering politics, Josh was a technology manager at Major League Baseball Advanced Media.

Jamie Henn

Jamie Henn, was part of the national leadership team of Step It Up 2007, which organized over 1,400 events around the country to rally support for global warming solutions. He is also an active member of the youth climate movement, where his accomplishments include: organizing a national bio-diesel bus tour, making his campus carbon neutral, wearing a toga at U.N. Climate Meetings, and, currently, working on Climate Summer with students in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Maren Hesla

Maren Hesla directs the Women VOTE! program at EMILY’s List – an independent expenditure campaign that mobilizes women voters on behalf of pro-choice Democratic women. . Maren’s background includes work with the national Democratic Party, as a manager and pollster. She served as the southern regional director for the Democratic National Committee and as national field director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She was Senior Associate at The Feldman Group, a Democratic polling firm for five years. Maren and her husband Bernard Craighead are raising two young Democrats, Olivia (age 11) and David (age 9).

Rachel Hope

Marc Laitin

Marc is a Principal at Wired for Change, a campaign strategies and technology consulting firm specializing in building online communities, driving supporters to action, and achieving online and offline objectives. In addition to his work at Wired for Change, Marc is the treasurer of StartChange PAC and was a director of the Running for Change PAC, which organized the Run Against Bush campaign, Stop Sinclair and Concerts for Change, and raised over $700,000 from over 20,000 donors. Prior to founding Running for Change, Marc was working part-time as a high school economics teacher at a DC public charter school and researching and writing a high school economics textbook with Alan Krueger. Marc is a graduate of Harvard where he majored in Economics. At Wired for Change, Marc focuses on providing strategic advice to clients and managing development projects.

Steve Jarding

Steve Jarding has spent 25 years working in American politics. He is a past Executive Director of the South Dakota Democratic Party and former Communications Director in Bob Kerrey's U.S. Senate campaigns in Nebraska. He has served as Communications Director of the national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and has run leadership PACs for Senators Kerrey and John Edwards. In 2001, Jarding was campaign manager for Mark Warner's bid for governor of Virginia, a campaign recognized by many as the best run in the country. In 1996, Roll Call magazine named Jarding one of the 50 most influential political people in Washington, DC. Jarding received an undergraduate degree from the University of South Dakota and a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma where he served as a Fellow at the Carl Albert Congressional Studies Center. In 2004, Jarding was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics. Jarding has taught at the University of Oklahoma, George Mason University, American University, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Jarding is coauthor of the 2006 book Foxes in the Hen House, a political commentary published by Simon and Schuster. More recently, Jarding has made numerous appearances on MSNBC's Hardball with Christ Matthews and worked as a senior advisor on Jim Webb’s successful campaign defeating Virginia Senator George Allen, which turned the balance of power in the Senate. Jarding’s role in the winning Warner and Webb campaigns show he is the leading political mind for a Democratic southern strategy, the Democratic Party's nominee may need him to become the next President.

Rosalyn Lemieux

Rosalyn Lemieux, New Organizing Institute’s Executive Director worked for MoveOn.org Political Action in various capacities—including staff trainer, online organizer, and volunteer program manager from April 2004 to July 2006. Prior to joining MoveOn, Rosalyn operated a small independent consulting business, conducting online campaigns for progressive candidates and causes. She got her start in online organizing while serving as the Feminist Majority Foundation’s web team director from 1999-2003.

Tom Lindenfeld

Chris Mann

Christopher Mann is Vice President of Targeting at MSHC Partners, Inc and President of Predicted Lists, LLC in Washington DC. He will receive his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2007 where he studied political behavior with Professors Donald Green and Alan Gerber. Chris has managed dozens of successful campaigns for candidates and referenda at the local, state, and federal levels and served as the Executive Director of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.

Dan Mannat

Dan Manatt is the Executive Producer/CEO of PoliticsTV.com/ptvMedia Consulting. Dan founded ptvMedia, the first ever political Web Video consulting firm, in 2003. Since opening its doors, ptvMedia has worked for a who's who of the progressive community, including the AFL-CIO, the Center for American Progress, the DNC, EMILY's List, The One Campaign (DATA), SEIU, and more. Dan founded PoliticsTV.com, the Internet TV site, in 2005. Prior to that, Dan worked on the Clinton-Gore campaigns in 1992 and 1996, in the White House counsel's office, on Capitol Hill as legislative counsel, and as an election law attorney. Dan's Web Video work has won top honors from MoveOn.org, Campaigns & Elections, the American Association of Political Consultants, and the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet.

Susan Markham

Amanda Michel

Amanda Michel is the Communications Director of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law, where she is responsible for the Center's press, communications, and community building efforts. Before joining the Berkman Center, Amanda worked on the Dean and Kerry campaigns. She was National Director of Generation Dean, Howard Dean's official youth outreach program. On the Kerry campaign, Amanda created and directed the Media Corps program, the campaign's grassroots media effort, and later in the campaign she and Zack Exley supervised Ohio's Internet-field operation. Along with other members of the Kerry Internet team, Amanda co-founded the New Organizing Institute, which trains young techies and organizers in the essentials of campaigning online.

Lauren Miller

Prior to joining Blue State Digital in 2005, Lauren served as state volunteer coordinator for the California Democratic Party, where she oversaw the party's volunteer recruitment, training, and organization for large-scale events. In 2004, she interned in the communications department of the California Democratic Party's "Every Vote Counts" campaign, a grassroots effort to register and mobilize voters in Democratic base communities. Lauren holds a B.A. in political science and Middle Eastern and North African studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Daniel Mintz

Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org's Support Director, began working with MoveOn as a volunteer in 2004. He has worked on numerous projects at MoveOn, including developing an all-volunteer Support Corps that answered tens of thousands of tech support requests during the '06 campaign. He has also worked as a researcher at the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara looking at the intersection of technology and collective action .

John Miyasato

John Miyasato has been working on campaigns for the last 21 years. He has worked with campaigns and nonprofits as diverse as Clinton '92 and '96, the PIRG's, DC mayoral races, and campaigns in CA, OR, MN, IL, VA, IA, ID, MI, NJ, WI, NY. He currently runs Crossroads Consulting which is a national IT recruiting firm and is launching a new political consulting firm that focuses on grassroots organizing and technology.

Frank O'Brien

Frank O'Brien is widely recognized as one of the leading direct marketing strategists in the nation. He is the president of OMP, a full-service fundraising and communications agency that serves leading causes in the United States. Over the past two decades, Frank has built OMP into a highly respected consulting firm with an ability to move with ease in the charitable, political and advocacy worlds. Frank serves both as a mentor to OMP staff and a hands-on partner with the agency's clients.

Jason Ost

Jason Ost is an experienced data analyst, with a strong background in public policy and marketing research. His analytical expertise includes market segmentation analyses, multivariate modeling, and other statistical procedures used to analyze and describe populations. While working at the Urban Institute, Jason co-authored papers on diverse policy topics, such as immigration, child care, adolescent risk-taking, and the foster care system. He also co-authored The Gay and Lesbian Atlas, the first book to use U.S. census data to study the gay and lesbian population. Immediately prior to joining Catalist, Jason worked as an analyst in the marketing research division of the Investment Company Institute, the national trade association for the mutual fund industry.

Laura Packard

Laura Packard is an internet consultant based in Lansing, helping Democratic/progressive campaigns and organizations do internet outreach effectively. She's taught sessions on online organizing for the Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, CPL, DFA, America Votes/Michigan Voice and others. In 2006, she was the Internet Communications Director for Senator Stabenow's reelection campaign.

Mike Podhorzer

Mike Podhorzer is Deputy Director at AFL-CIO. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 55 national and international labor unions. Today's unions represent 10 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life. We are teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers—and more.

Ari Rabin-Havt

Ari Rabin-Havt currently works in the United States Senate in Harry Reid’s office. He has loved politics for as long as he can remember. With college friend Ben Brandzel, he founded a nationwide student organization called Click Back America, which was eventually re-branded as MoveOn Student Action. He also served as Deputy Director of Internet Communications on John Kerry's presidential campaign. Previously Ari worked at Penn Schoen and Berland Associates, a Washington DC based polling and market research firm, and in Rep. Ted Strickland's (OH-6) office.

Joe Rospars

Joe Rospars is a founding partner at Blue State Digital and specializes in Internet strategy, communications and fundraising. Since helping found the company, he has developed and implemented strategies that have made news, recruited hundreds of thousands of volunteers, and raised millions of dollars for clients. Before his work at Blue State Digital, he worked for Gov. Howard Dean’s presidential campaign where he wrote and edited emails that were sent to hundreds of thousands of supporters and provided content for the highly praised Web site and blog. Joe also worked on message development, online brand building, and grassroots organizing for the campaign. Prior to the campaign, he taught English in Stockholm, Sweden and wrote for NotGeniuses.com, a political blog.

Katelyn Sabochik

Katelyn Sabochik is joining Blue State since March 2007 as a senior strategist. Prior Katelyn worked at the AFL-CIO during the 2006 election cycle. At the AFL-CIO she helped to design and implement an online communication program focused on identifying union activists and engaging them in a wide range of online and offline activities to help elect AFL-CIO endorsed candidates at the federal, state, and local level. Katelyn has also worked as a Consultant with M+R Strategic Services. At M+R, she worked with progressive non-profit organizations to create, implement and analyze the results of online advocacy and fundraising campaigns. Katelyn holds a B.A. in Politics from New York University.

Mike Sager

Mike Sager is the Deputy Technology Director of the Democratic Party of Virginia, and a part of the DNC's 50 State Partnership Program. Mike fell into politics on the 2004 Kerry campaign in Florida, while between gigs as a touring lighting director for rock and rap bands (including Lil' Romeo, Sean Paul, Skrape, The Temptations, G-Unit, and others). Following 2004, Mike returned to his native Fairfax County and joined the 2005 Coordinated Campaign. When the opportunity to join Democratic Technology company NGP that summer, Mike jumped at the chance and spent the next year and a half buried in campaign finance data. Mike maintained his relationship with the state party as IT Director for the Virginia Association of Democratic Campaign Counsel, and as number cruncher for the 2005 Attorney General recount. Following the 2006 elections, Mike returned to the DPVA in his current capacity. Mike is an on again/off again student at George Mason University, where he jokes that he is on the "tenure" track because it will be at least another "ten years" before he graduates. Mike is an avid guitar player, and refuses to accept that he will not be the new second baseman for the Washington Nationals.

Cliff Schecter

Cliff Schecter is a veteran campaign strategist and political commentator. Schecter writes a monthly column distributed by Knight Ridder and was a guest columnist for United Press International from 2002-2004. His work has been featured in a variety of publications including The Miami Herald, The American Prospect, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Fordham Urban Law Journal, The Sacramento Bee and Salon.com. He blogs for The Gadflyer and writes a weekly satirical column each Friday called "Cliff's Corner," summarizing the week's most ridiculous events for AMERICAblog.

Madeline Stanionis

Madeline is an experienced online fundraising, advocacy, and marketing consultant, speaker, and author. Until mid-2006, she was the President and Creative Director of Donordigital, a full-service online agency which helps nonprofit organizations, campaigns, and socially responsible businesses use the Internet to build their constituencies and achieve their goals. Madeline has been raising money, organizing, and communicating for organizations and causes for 20 years. She is also a frequent speaker and writer in fundraising, advocacy, and technology conferences and publications across the country. Madeline is a trainer and adviser to the New Organizing Institute, and co-convenes Web of Change, an international annual gathering that connects global leaders in online communications, technology, and activism who are actively building a better world. She is the author of The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Raising Thousands (If Not Tens of Thousands) of Dollars with E-mail.

Matt Stoller

Matt Stoller is a blogger and thought leader in the internet wing of the progressive movment. He writes at the well-respected liberal blog MyDD.com on progressive strategy, and is the President of the political action committee BlogPAC, which seeks to fund bloggers and progressive activists. He focuses his work on progressive coalition building, the mechanics of the right-wing, and communications policy. He consults for the Sunlight Foundation on open government, for Free Press's 'Savetheinternet' coalition on net neutrality, and for Working Assets, a progressive phone company. In 2005, he worked as the blogger for Jon Corzine for Governor and Simon Rosenberg for DNC Chair. He also co-created the web campaign Thereisnocrisis.com to fight against the privatization of Social Security. In 2004, he worked on a radio and blog project called 'The Blogging of the President', credentialled bloggers for the Democratic National Convention, and co-created the web campaign enjoythedraft.com. He is the co-author of a report titled 'The Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere' from the New Politics Institute. In 2003, he worked on the Draft Clark movement. Stoller began blogging in 2002.

Marty Stone

President of Stones' Phones has 23 years of political experience, working in both the legislative and electoral fields. As a former US Congressional candidate, himself, Marty brings a unique perspective of the demands placed on a candidate and the importance of connecting a campaign message to the candidate’s accomplishments. Marty’s lobbying legislative experience spans both progressive and corporate causes. As Vice President for Government Regulations for AGRISystems, Marty arranged US Senate hearings on the firm’s innovative technologies. On a pro-bono basis, Marty has worked with the National Democratic Institute in Bosnia, Croatia, and Azerbaijan. Marty has also worked on hundreds of Congressional races as the former PAC Director, California Director, and Western States Director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He served as the finance director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. He is the founder of Stones’ Phones, a firm he started in search of affordable, high-quality, strategic campaign telephone solutions. The firm’s 46 years of combined political experience is designed to provide planning, execution and reporting that is strategic, reliable and comprehensive. In 2004 alone, Stones’ Phones consulted and put out over 35 million phone calls for the top campaigns and organizations in the nation. As an expert on special elections, Marty has a proven track record on winning when the turnout is low. And with his substantial experience with recounts, he knows how to get his candidates seated even after Election Day. In addition to his consulting work with live and automated calls on behalf of candidates and causes, Marty was a media consultant with Laguens, Hamburger, Stone. All told, he’s worked on political campaigns in 37 states at all levels of government. E-mail Marty at marty@stonesphones.com.

Brian Stults

Brian Stults joins Polimetrix after several years working with non-profit organizations. He is is Vice President of Data Services. Most recently, he was National Voter File Director for one of the largest get-out-the-vote drives in history. In this capacity, he constructed voter files and managed data processes for fifteen states. Prior to working with non-profits, Stults independently constructed voter files and performed database enhancement work for clients including various state parties and candidates. Stults holds two summa cum laude degrees from Dartmouth College, one in Quantitative Political Analysis and the other in Mathematical Social Sciences. His Honors Thesis research on economic voting won the College's prize for best piece of research written by an undergraduate in the year 2001. Stults's research has been presented at professional conferences and is under consideration at various peer-reviewed journals.

Mark Sullivan

Mark Sullivan is owner at Voter Activation Network, which is the leading provider of online voter file systems to Democrats and their allies. Founded in 2001, VAN has revolutionized the way campaigns and organizations access and manage data about voters, activists, and members. In early 2007 the DNC recognized the VAN's speed, power, reliability, and flexibility by making VoteBuilder available to every state Democratic Party in the nation. Based in Somerville, Massachusetts, VAN has grown from the two founders to a staff of 18 today. With a growing client base of labor unions, progressive coalitions, Democratic candidates, and membership organizations, we are constantly looking for talented and committed people to fill expanding roles as programmers, database managers, and customer support personnel.

Tanya Tarr

Tanya Tarr currently serves as a political analyst at the International office of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Previously, she served as Data Manager for Working America, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, where she managed their 1.5 million member list. Her innovative work in building performance metrics generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings . Her metrics also improved and empowered Working America's fundraising, online and 300-person, nation-wide field recruitment operation. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Tanya has managed and worked on dozens of political campaigns, but she developed her cutting-edge data-mining skills working in the defense industry. Tanya is considered one of the leading data strategists in the progressive community (and is happy to use her skills for causes other than defense).

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Jessica Vanden Berg

Jessica Vanden Berg has worked on numerous successful campaigns, most notably General Wesley Clark's 2004 campaign. She was a very superb Campaign manager for Senator-Elect Jim Webb. Vanden Berg managed the key primary state of Oklahoma, the only state General Clark won during the primary. Vanden Berg continues to advise General Clark. On November 30th at the University of Virginia's 9th Annual American Democracy Conference she represented General Wesley Clark's potential 2008 candidacy.

Ben Weisberg

Ben Weisberg works at Google as an Account Manager on the newly formed Elections and Issue Advocacy Team. He works with political candidates and advocacy groups on maintaining their existing AdWords accounts and building those accounts to ensure strong future growth. Previously, he spent two years on Google's National Agency team, managing the accounts of the largest SEMs (search engine marketers) that currently work with Google. Throughout his time at Google, Ben has also been a dedicated volunteer for the Google Grants program, screening potential applicants and optimizing the accounts of current grantees. Ben received his B.A. in American Studies at Columbia University.

Hilary Zwerdling

Hillary Zwerdling is Senior Consultant at M+R Strategic Services. She has a background in field and political organizing and online advocacy. Prior to joining M+R’s eCampaigns team, she worked as an online strategy consultant for Congressional offices, political campaigns, and advocacy organizations. In 2004, Hilary served as deputy political director for former Congressman Joe Hoeffel’s U.S. Senate race. She has also spearheaded consumer and environmental advocacy campaigns with Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing. Hilary is a graduate of Amherst College.

March 2007 Online Organizing & Tech Training

Michael Bassik

At MSHC Partners, no small measure of pride is taken in the fact that each member of our team boasts some unique and/or odd skill. However, when Michael Bassik came to us in 2004 he brought with him the unique distinction as being the first - and probably only - member of our staff to have ever appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall (making his New York City debut playing viola with his high school orchestra). In fact, Michael came to MSHC Partners possessing a wealth of unique skills - singing, dancing, sleeping late - that we have yet to figure out what to do with.

In the meantime, Michael is MSHC Partners' Vice President of Internet Advertising and oversees the creation and development of our online marketing campaigns. A true political junkie who got his first fix accompanying his parents to the polls, Michael comes to us from AOL where had directed political media strategy since the 2000 election cycle.

A native of Great Neck, NY, Michael graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (where he was the student body president in his senior year) and has worked for some of the most powerful figures in media and politics, including President Clinton and former New York Times editor-in-chief Howell Raines.

Ivan Boothe

Ivan Boothe is the director of communications for the Genocide Intervention Network, which empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. He holds a degree in peace and conflict studies and authored a thesis on third-party nonviolent intervention. Ivan was a co-founder of why-war.org, which launched a nationwide campaign of electronic civil disobedience against the voting machine manufacturer Diebold in 2003. His writings can be found at quixotic1.com.

Nita Chaudhary

Chaudhary runs campaigns on civil liberties, Censure, and other issues for Moveon.org. In the past she worked for the DNC and the People for the American Way. At PFAW she held several positions, including Media Research Analyst, Web Content Manager, and Online Organizer. Nita is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, CT, with a degree in Political Science and Women's Studies.

Peter Churchill

Peter Churchill is the Associate Director of CRM and Outreach Technology at the Center for American Progress. Prior to joining the Center, Peter spent three months at the Webb for Senate Campaign in Virginia after graduating with a Master's Degree in Political Management from GW's Graduate School of Political Management in June 2006. While studying, Peter also worked at the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, where he successfully managed the 2006 Politics Online Conference. Peter originally hails from the UK, where he spent nearly ten years working in Europe and the USA designing and building contact management solutions for the corporate sector.

Heather Cronk

Heather is Training Director at the New Organizing Institute. Immediately prior to her work at NOI, Heather worked with PledgeBank.com, a project of mySociety. In this position, Heather was responsible for reaching out to organizations and individuals across the country to encourage the use of PledgeBank as a tool for local community organizing and citizen-centered collective action. Heather also connected organizations in the U.S. with mySociety's work in the U.K. to create channels for average citizens to use the web in order to connect more meaningfully with their neighbors and with their elected representatives.

Heather's background is in campus organizing, and worked with Idealist.org's campus program, first as an organizer and then as director. In the role of director, Heather coordinated Idealist’s work with college students primarily in the United States, involving a unique combination of traveling nationally to train at campuses and conferences, running day-to-day operations for the program, organizing a 1,500-person national conference on student engagement and activism, building a strong network of incredible university programs and nonprofit organizations, and creating a website tying all these things together seamlessly. The majority of her professional experience has been in higher education, helping students find pathways into college activism, socially responsible careers, and meaningful movement-building work.

Simultaneous to her work with NOI, Heather is coordinating the IMPACT Conference, formerly known as the COOL Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference.

A native of Kentucky, Heather has lived in 10 states and is an expert in packing and unpacking. She is a graduate of Berry College and Wake Forest University Divinity School.

Colin Delany

After an early-’90s stint in the Texas Capitol (a place where politics is generally considered a contact sport), in 1995 I helped to start the original e.politics, which was an email-based legislative and regulatory alert service that unfortunately never quite worked as advertised. In 1999, I helped to start politicalinformation.com, a targeted search engine for politics and policy (now preserved by an online museum!), and served as its editor, public face and chief business development/P.R. guy.

After both companies went the way of all well-intentioned but inadequately capitalized ideas, I worked for several years as a graphic designer and communications consultant, helping a wide variety of advocacy groups build an online presence. Since September of 2003, I’ve worked full-time at the National Environmental Trust as their online communications manager. In that role, I’ve tried everything I could to help spread the word about our issues and mobilize supporters. Along the way, I’ve given most of the methods described on e.politics a shot.

Zack Exley

Zack Exley is a Senior Strategist with OMP, a DC-based communications and fundraising firm, and President of the New Organizing Institute, as well as a Co-Founder and Board Member. He coordinated online efforts for the British Labor Party's 2005 re-election campaign, and was Director of Online Organizing and Communications at Kerry-Edwards 2004. Before that he served as Organizing Director at MoveOn.org, and played a part in early Dean Internet strategy. He broke ground for politics on the Internet in 1999 with GWBush.com, a parody site that drew a precedent-setting attack from the Bush campaign – and with some of the first experiments in national online organizing. Zack worked as a union organizer for several years around the Midwest and South in the mid-90's, and also worked as a computer programmer in the financial sector.

Susan Finkelpearl

Susan blends communications strategy with emerging web technologies to transform her clients websites from static e-brochures into vibrant communities, where individuals gather and rally around issues they care about. Prior to joining Free Range in 2004, Susan racked up knowledge of today's most critical environmental and social issues at the Worldwatch Institute. Her passion for community involvement comes from her years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Slovakia, where she established a youth center, taught English, and assisted community foundations with strategic planning and fundraising. Susan is currently pursuing a Masters in communications with a concentration on digital technologies at The Johns Hopkins University. In her free time, Susan dabbles in organic gardening, and getting all the fresh air she can via hiking, biking, climbing, and camping.

Judith Freeman

Judith Freeman is the Senior Research Analyst in the AFL-CIO’s Political department, and President of the New Organizing Institute, as well as a Co-Founder and Board Member. Previously, she was the Director of Information Technology for Working America at the AFL-CIO. During the 2004 presidential election, she worked for the Kerry campaign at national headquarters as an online organizer, playing a key role in mobilizing hundreds of thousands of volunteers nationwide. She has consulted to several political and non-profit campaigns on Internet strategy and membership data management, including Casey for Senate, Angelides for Governor and the Wilderness Society. Before combining her two passions of organizing and technology, she worked for 5 years as a Network Engineer and Systems Programmer for the Network Security Center at the University of Chicago where she also organized for human rights campaigns.

Margot Friedman

Margot Friedman, J.D. brings nearly 20 years of experience in strategic communications, media relations, speechwriting, lobbying, and campaign management to Dupont Circle Communications. She specializes in using strategic communications to advance public policy agendas, build field efforts, and support fundraising goals for nonprofit organizations and progressive elected officials.

Steve Geer

Stephen Geer is the Manager of Online Advocacy at the Center for American Progress. Before joining the Center, Steve ran online operations for the Children's Defense Fund and served as webmaster for American University's College of Arts and Sciences. Steve studied electrical engineering at Cornell University and computer science and literature at Virginia Tech. He is originally from Roanoke, Virginia.

Scott Goodstein

Scott Goodstein spent the last twelve years managing political campaigns and building progressive coalitions. After working for several members of Congress, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, Goodstein founded Catalyst Campaigns (www.catalystcampaigns.com). A master at mixing online and offline organizing tools with culture, music, politics and messaging, Goodstein knows how to build sustainable niche based organizations from the ground up including: Punkvoter.com, Rock Against Bush, MilitaryFreeZone.org, Save CBGB, and Operation Ceasefire. Goodstein received both a BA and an MPA from The American University School of Public Affairs.

Goodstein lives in Washington DC where he proudly proclaims, "George Bush is Still Not My President."

Adam Green

Adam Green is a self-described “pro bono philosopher.” A native of New Jersey, he attended law school at the University of Virginia and did his undergraduate work at The George Washington University – where he studied political communications and economics. He currently serves as Civic Communications Director for MoveOn.org Civic Action. Previously, he was Communications Director for the New Jersey Democratic State Committee and was the DNC’s Press Secretary in Oregon during the 2004 presidential campaign.

Greg Greene

Greg is a Senior Strategist for Blue State Digital. For more than a decade, Greg has been involved in politics, beginning with a stint as a White House intern in 1993. He worked on Cathy Woolard's campaign for Atlanta city council president in 2001 and as research director and press secretary for her 2004 Congressional campaign. Other recent political experience includes three years as a governmental affairs representative for technology concerns and progressive causes, as well as engagements with environmental organizations such as the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and the Georgia Water Coalition. Earlier in his career, Greg worked on the news staff of the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and spent two years in the litigation practice of a law firm in Chicago.

David Grossman

David Grossman is a producer for PoliticsTV.com and PoliticsTV's consulting division, ptvMedia. PoliticsTV.com provides original video coverage of political events often overlooked or poorly covered by the mainstream media as well as providing a portal website for political video content. ptvMedia provides video services to a number of progressive organizations, including MoveOn.org, Campaign for America's Future and NDN. Prior to joining PoliticsTV, David worked on the communications staff for Media Matters for America. David earned his B.A. from American University's School of Public Affairs.

Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes is a co-founder of the popular social network Facebook. Begun by three Harvard undergrads in early 2004, Facebook helps people better understand the world around them by developing technologies that facilitate the spread of information through social networks. Hughes is most interested in the intersections between technology and cultural and political structures. He has worked both on the marketing and product development teams at Facebook since the site's beginning.

Clay Johnson

Clay Johnson is a founding partner at Blue State Digital and is responsible for business development at Blue State Digital. He has many years of experience building online communities and has played an integral role at the forefront of Internet technology, including starting and directing three of his own companies. As a college student, Clay founded KnowPost.com, the first Internet-based knowledge exchange, which connected people who had questions to people who had answers. Clay's work at KnowPost included building a community of over 100,000 people who participated in this information exchange. Clay's interest in knowledge management also led him to work at Ask Jeeves as their lead syndication engineer. Before starting Blue State Digital, Clay was the lead national software engineer behind the online grassroots organizing technology for Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign. He built numerous software programs, including one that enabled over 300,000 people to write letters and make 50,000 phone calls to undecided voters. Clay is an advisor for the New Progressive Coalition and is a founder of Georgia for Democracy.

Rosalyn Lemieux

Rosalyn Lemieux, New Organizing Institute’s Executive Director worked for MoveOn.org Political Action in various capacities—including staff trainer, online organizer, and volunteer program manager from April 2004 to July 2006. Prior to joining MoveOn, Rosalyn operated a small independent consulting business, conducting online campaigns for progressive candidates and causes. She got her start in online organizing while serving as the Feminist Majority Foundation’s web team director from 1999-2003.

Peter Leyden

Peter Leyden is the Director of the New Politics Institute, a think tank and strategy center based in San Francisco that focuses on the transformation of politics in the early 21st century. NPI is developing a diverse network of strategists from many different fields to help progressives take advantage of today’s massive changes in technology, media and demographics. NPI is an affiliate of NDN, with offices in Washington, DC. Leyden comes from Global Business Network, a futures think tank and strategic consulting firm that pioneered the use of a diverse networks of high capacity individuals. He worked for years at the center of GBN’s network of more than 100 technologists, scientists, academics, entrepreneurs, business strategists, and artists. Leyden previously worked as the managing editor at the original Wired magazine that helped drive the digital revolution and pioneered the early online new media. He has worked as a journalist at several newspapers and as a special correspondent in Asia for Newsweek magazine. Leyden is the coauthor of two books, The Long Boom, A Future History of the World: 1980-2020; and What's Next?, Exploring the New Terrain for Business. He has written for many publications, including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Peter has two master's degrees from Columbia University, including one in political science, and graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife Sharon, and 14-year-old daughter, Emma. You can contact him at leyden@newpolitics.net and find more about him and NPI at www.newpolitics.net.

Dan Manatt

Dan Manatt is the Executive Producer/CEO of PoliticsTV.com/ptvMedia Consulting. Dan founded ptvMedia, the first ever political Web Video consulting firm, in 2003. Since opening its doors, ptvMedia has worked for a who's who of the progressive community, including the AFL-CIO, the Center for American Progress, the DNC, EMILY's List, The One Campaign (DATA), SEIU, and more.

Dan founded PoliticsTV.com, the Internet TV site, in 2005. Prior to that, Dan worked on the Clinton-Gore campaigns in 1992 and 1996, in the White House counsel's office, on Capitol Hill as legislative counsel, and as an election law attorney. Dan's Web Video work has won top honors from MoveOn.org, Campaigns & Elections, the American Association of Political Consultants, and the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet.

Tom Matzzie

As the Washington Director of MoveOn.org Political Action, Tom oversees MoveOn's legislative advocacy on a range of issues including Social Security, the Courts, the Environment, budget and tax issues, the war in Iraq and other issues important to MoveOn’s 3 million members. Prior to joining MoveOn Tom was Director of Online Organizing for the Kerry-Edwards campaign — managing an organizing program for the campaign’s 2.8 million person e-mail list. From 2000 to 2004 he was Online Mobilization Director at the AFL-CIO building the union movement’s Internet program — including the 3.2 million e-mail activists on the lists of the unions of the AFL-CIO. Tom is also one of the top Social Security organizers in the country. From 1998 to 2000 he organized the coalition opposing Social Security privatization at the Campaign for America's Future. He has appeared on network television, on syndicated radio and is cited by The New York Times, the Associated Press, The Washington Post and other major daily publications.

Amanda Michel

Amanda Michel is the Communications Director of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law, where she is responsible for the Center's press, communications, and community building efforts. Before joining the Berkman Center, Amanda worked on the Dean and Kerry campaigns. She was National Director of Generation Dean, Howard Dean's official youth outreach program. On the Kerry campaign, Amanda created and directed the Media Corps program, the campaign's grassroots media effort, and later in the campaign she and Zack Exley supervised Ohio's Internet-field operation. Along with other members of the Kerry Internet team, Amanda co-founded the New Organizing Institute, which trains young techies and organizers in the essentials of campaigning online.

Lauren Miller

Prior to joining Blue State Digital in 2005, Lauren served as state volunteer coordinator for the California Democratic Party, where she oversaw the party's volunteer recruitment, training, and organization for large-scale events. In 2004, she interned in the communications department of the California Democratic Party's "Every Vote Counts" campaign, a grassroots effort to register and mobilize voters in Democratic base communities. Lauren holds a B.A. in political science and Middle Eastern and North African studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Frank O'Brien

Frank O'Brien is widely recognized as one of the leading direct marketing strategists in the nation. He is the president of OMP, a full-service fundraising and communications agency that serves leading causes in the United States. Over the past two decades, Frank has built OMP into a highly respected consulting firm with an ability to move with ease in the charitable, political and advocacy worlds. Frank serves both as a mentor to OMP staff and a hands-on partner with the agency's clients.

Nico Pitney

Nico Pitney is Deputy Research Director of ThinkProgress.org and the Progress Report at the Center for American Progress. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California Santa Barbara, and studied economics and international relations with the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University. Prior to joining the Center, Nico developed web content for the youth arm of Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign.

Ari Rabin-Havt

Ari Rabin-Havt currently works in the United States Senate in Harry Reid’s office. He has loved politics for as long as he can remember. With college friend Ben Brandzel, he founded a nationwide student organization called Click Back America, which was eventually re-branded as MoveOn Student Action. He also served as Deputy Director of Internet Communications on John Kerry's presidential campaign. Previously Ari worked at Penn Schoen and Berland Associates, a Washington DC based polling and market research firm, and in Rep. Ted Strickland's (OH-6) office.

Jeff Regen

Jeff Regen is the Vice President of Online Marketing & Communications at Defenders of Wildlife, an industry leader in online fundraising, advocacy, and education. Defenders has a list of over 500,000 e-subscribers, generates over one million advocacy actions each year, and raises over $3 million online each year as well as supporting offline fundraising. Prior to joining Defenders in 2004, Jeff spent twelve years in the private sector. He learned private sector database marketing techniques at Capital One where he managed the marketing and business development teams in the Internet Acquisition Division. Jeff also built and served as President for a dotcom, and worked for the consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. In the early 1990s, he worked in the former Soviet Union--first on environmental issues, and later on privatization and capital markets development. Jeff received his Bachelors from Swarthmore College and MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Kevin Reid

As Assistant Vice President at Issue Dynamics, Inc., Kevin Reid heads up IDI's Internet group, which manages online campaigns from design and development to messaging, mobilization and analysis. Kevin also oversees IDI's Blogger Relations programs including client blog building, monitoring, advertising and training. Kevin has more than a decade of experience in online communication and mobilization. Before coming to IDI, he was director of Internet communications at the U.S. section of Amnesty International with responsibility for overall online communications operations and strategic direction. While there, Kevin helped the organization integrate its online and offline programs and develop online recruitment and retention strategies specific to students in college and high school as well as Spanish-language activists. He also helped the organization develop a blogging strategy. Additionally, he was tapped by Amnesty International's global headquarters in London on a number of key Internet-based communications and recruitment projects.

Kevin has a BA in International Relations from Claremont McKenna College, an MS in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University and an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University’s School of Communication.

Simon Rosenberg

Simon Rosenberg is the founder of the New Democrat Network, an organization formerly allied with the Democratic Leadership Council, and was a candidate for the Democratic National Committee Chair in 2005. Guided by the vision of building a 21st century Party, Rosenberg has advocated for a vibrant, dynamic and effective strategy to make the Democratic Party competitive in all regions of the country.

Alan Rosenblatt

Alan Rosenblatt is the Executive Director of Internet Advocacy Center, a digital political strategy consulting firm and virtual think tank. He advises clients on how to effectively use the internet and mobile technology in public affairs, public education, advocacy, and electoral campaigns. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on internet politics and is known for having one of the most comprehensive views and understanding of the constantly changing technological landscape of digital politics. He has advised advocacy groups, Congressional offices, grassroots party organizations, associations, and technology vendors on ways to best position themselves for success. He is often sought out by technology companies to review their new products and product upgrades. He has his finger on the pulse of the latest trends in social networking, blogging, online video, mobile advocacy, and other leading edge digital tools and strategies.

As the leader of the Internet Advocacy Roundtable, Dr. Rosenblatt convenes a monthly, intensive forum that brings together experts in the areas of internet and mobile advocacy, social networking, online advertising, and related topics with public affairs professionals. Since its first meeting in August 2005, over 200 people have participated in these small, intimate luncheons. Many of the attendees, most experts in their own rights, have participated in several Roundtables.

Dr. Rosenblatt is also an adjunct professor at American University, the Editor of the Moving Ideas Network, Washington Bureau Chief for Media Bureau Networks (MBN), and a contributing editor to Politics Online. He currently writes for two blogs—Dr. DigiPol and Moving Targets, and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals dedicated to the study of the Internet, politics, and government, including the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, the International Journal of Electronic Government Research, and Social Science Computer Review. He taught Political Science at George Mason University for nine years, where, in 1995, he launched the nation’s first cyberpolitics course. With MBN, he was the project manager for webcasting live coverage of the 2000 Presidential Conventions, where he also edited the supporting website and hosted several talk shows, interviewing noted political figures including the Reverend Jerry Falwell, Steve Forbes, Jr., Philadelphia Mayor John Street, and former Congressman Bob Barr. In 2001, he created the Online Advocacy Services division at Stateside Associates, the first state and local focused internet advocacy strategy practice in the industry. From 2003 to 2005 he trained campaign professionals how to use the Internet to achieve their political goals and managed several online advocacy campaigns for e-advocates. Dr. Rosenblatt has a Ph.D. in Political Science from American University, an M.A. in Political Science from Boston College, and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Tufts University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

David Salie

Invited by Governor Howard Dean to work full-time for his campaign efforts in 2002, David Salie, formerly an Attorney-Adviser for the U.S. Department of State, became Dean for America’s Director of House Party Fundraising. Over the course of 15 months, David built relationships with grassroots leaders nationwide and developed a new outreach strategy for political campaigns. Under David’s leadership DFA’s House Party program engaged over 80,000 participants, trained over 3,500 supporters to become grassroots leaders, and raised over $2 million for Governor Dean's presidential campaign. “National House Party Days” became the signature events of the House Party program, featuring simultaneous nationwide gatherings, each joining a single conference call with the candidate himself. In December, for example, during the “New Year for America” event, over 1,400 separate house parties participated in the largest nationwide fundraiser in American political history, raising over $800,000 in one evening.

David now works with clients to create innovative community-building programs for partisan and non-partisan grassroots outreach and fundraising. By teaching political campaigns, non-profit groups and for-profit companies to optimize their use of both new technology as well as more traditional methods of peer-to-peer engagement and activism, David helps groups connect with more people, at a deeper level, in shorter time-frames.

Ali Savino

Alexandra Savino is the co-founder and Program Director of the Center for Independent Media a not-for-profit organization that fosters diversity of ideas in the national debate by educating and training people on the use of new communications technologies. The Center's Fellowships and programs focuses on blogs as an exemplar of independent media.

Prior to launching the Center, Ms. Savino had worked with several progressive campaigns and organizations in a number of capacities. Starting with the Dean campaign in 2003, she has been a part of an assorted array of campaigns in various positions. She has worked in numerous states such as Iowa, South Carolina, and New Jersey. Mostly recently she was responsible for developing an Internet strategy for the Democracy Alliance, and blogosphere analysis for Media Matters for America. Previous to Ms. Savino's work in the political and advocacy world, she held software programming positions with companies such as Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Strategic Forecasting and Netegrity. Alexandra Savino is a graduate of Cornell University, with a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree with a focus on computer security.

Michael Silberman

Michael Silberman was was the National Meetup Director for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and is now the Director and Senior Strategist at consultancy EchoDitto. EchoDitto is a strategic online communications firm dedicated to building vibrant communities online and empowering people through the creative use of emerging technologies. EchoDitto serves a wide variety of high profile nonprofit and business clients, including the U.N. World Food Programme, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and many more. In addition to helping other organizations use new tools, EchoDitto themselves blogs, uses RSS feeds and share their social bookmarking archives on the front page of their company web site, www.echoditto.com.

Madeline Stanionis

Madeline is an experienced online fundraising, advocacy, and marketing consultant, speaker, and author. Until mid-2006, she was the President and Creative Director of Donordigital, a full-service online agency which helps nonprofit organizations, campaigns, and socially responsible businesses use the Internet to build their constituencies and achieve their goals. Madeline has been raising money, organizing, and communicating for organizations and causes for 20 years. She is also a frequent speaker and writer in fundraising, advocacy, and technology conferences and publications across the country. Madeline is a trainer and adviser to the New Organizing Institute, and co-convenes Web of Change, an international annual gathering that connects global leaders in online communications, technology, and activism who are actively building a better world. She is the author of The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Raising Thousands (If Not Tens of Thousands) of Dollars with E-mail.

Matt Stoller

Matt Stoller is a blogger and thought leader in the internet wing of the progressive movment. He writes at the well-respected liberal blog MyDD.com on progressive strategy, and is the President of the political action committee BlogPAC, which seeks to fund bloggers and progressive activists. He focuses his work on progressive coalition building, the mechanics of the right-wing, and communications policy. He consults for the Sunlight Foundation on open government, for Free Press's 'Savetheinternet' coalition on net neutrality, and for Working Assets, a progressive phone company. In 2005, he worked as the blogger for Jon Corzine for Governor and Simon Rosenberg for DNC Chair. He also co-created the web campaign Thereisnocrisis.com to fight against the privatization of Social Security. In 2004, he worked on a radio and blog project called 'The Blogging of the President', credentialled bloggers for the Democratic National Convention, and co-created the web campaign enjoythedraft.com. He is the co-author of a report titled 'The Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere' from the New Politics Institute. In 2003, he worked on the Draft Clark movement. Stoller began blogging in 2002.

Tim Tagaris

Netroots wizard and ex-Marine, Tim is a brilliant organizer, a dedicated progressive and a fantastic blogger and visionary. To give you a little history, Tim's a netroots pioneer. He managed the first netroots candidate, Jeff Seeman, to a surprisingly good showing. In Pennsylvania, he caught young Republicans outside of a Santorum event on video chanting 'Hey hey, ho ho, Social Security's got to go', a major blow to the privatization scam. Then in Ohio he built GrowOhio.org for Sherrod Brown before providing the crucial link between the Ohio blogs and the national blogosphere that led to Hackett's fantastic rise during the Ohio 2nd race against Jean Schmidt. Tim played an instrumental role as a blogger at the DNC before heading to Connecticut to direct internet communications for Ned Lamont.

Usha Venkatachallam

Ms. Usha Venkatachallam, Solutions Architect at Beaconfire Consulting, has been providing technical expertise to nonprofit and non-governmental organizations for nearly a decade. She helps nonprofit organizations creatively apply Internet technologies to advance their mission through designing, configuring, and implementing online solutions for content management, fundraising, advocacy, email marketing, and data integration. She has worked with innovative organizations such as American Civil Liberties Unions (ACLU), Amnesty International, Oxfam America, Heifer International, Planned Parenthood Federation, and Easter Seals.

Michael Ward

Michael is a Senior Vice President at M+R Strategic Service. In addition to overseeing the New York City team, he works directly with many of M+R’s large clients such as the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Human Rights First, Consumer Union (publishers of Consumer Reports) and Habitat for Humanity.

Prior to joining M+R, Michael worked for a project of the Rockefeller Family Fund providing strategic advice on online advocacy campaigns for major national organizations. In addition, he oversaw the development of a cutting-edge technology-planning tool available to nonprofit organizations via the web. Michael has been working using the Internet to advance policy issues since 1992, when he worked on a successful online campaign to win public access to government databases at the Center for Study of Responsive Law. Michael graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of International and Public Affairs.

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Jerome Armstrong

Jerome Armstrong, a pioneer of the political blogosphere, founded one of the first political blogs, MyDD.com in 2001. An architect of the netroots strategy that used blogs and Meetups for Howard Dean's campaign, Jerome works as an internet strategist for advocacy organizations and political campaigns with his company, Netroots.com. Jerome co-authored Crashing the Gate: Grassroots, Netroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics with Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos.

Ben Brandzel

Ben is the Campaign Director of MoveOn.org Political Action. In August of 2004, he founded the MoveOn Student Action to register and turn out youth for the November elections. The initiative was a huge success, involving 230,000 students on 2,300 campuses in all 50 states.

Brendan Bush

Brendan Bush worked on the Internet Team of John Kerry’s presidential campaign after a brief stint as a field organizer in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Tennessee. He spent a year as the Online Coordinator for WakeUpWalMart.com, helping to launch what has become one of America's fastest growing online movements. He now works for Mayfield Strategy, consulting on various Democratic campaigns.

Zack Exley

Zack Exley is a Senior Strategist with OMP, a DC-based communications and fundraising firm, and President of the New Organizing Institute, as well as a Co-Founder and Board Member. He coordinated online efforts for the British Labor Party's 2005 re-election campaign, and was Director of Online Organizing and Communications at Kerry-Edwards 2004. Before that he served as Organizing Director at MoveOn.org, and played a part in early Dean Internet strategy. He broke ground for politics on the Internet in 1999 with GWBush.com, a parody site that drew a precedent-setting attack from the Bush campaign – and with some of the first experiments in national online organizing. Zack worked as a union organizer for several years around the Midwest and South in the mid-90's, and also worked as a computer programmer in the financial sector.

Judith Freeman

Judith Freeman, a New Organizing Institute Co-Founder and Board Member, is the Senior Research Analyst in the AFL-CIO’s Political department. Previously, she was the Director of Information Technology for Working America at the AFL-CIO. During the 2004 presidential election, she worked for the Kerry campaign at national headquarters as an online organizer, playing a key role in mobilizing hundreds of thousands of volunteers nationwide. She has consulted to several political and non-profit campaigns on Internet strategy and membership data management, including Casey for Senate, Angelides for Governor and the Wilderness Society. Before combining her two passions of organizing and technology, she worked for 5 years as a Network Engineer and Systems Programmer for the Network Security Center at the University of Chicago where she also organized for human rights campaigns.

Adam Green

Adam Green is a self-described “pro bono philosopher.” A native of New Jersey, he attended law school at the University of Virginia and did his undergraduate work at The George Washington University – where he studied political communications and economics. He currently serves as Civic Communications Director for MoveOn.org Civic Action. Previously, he was Communications Director for the New Jersey Democratic State Committee and was the DNC’s Press Secretary in Oregon during the 2004 presidential campaign.

Greg Greene

Greg is a Senior Strategist for Blue State Digital. For more than a decade, Greg has been involved in politics, beginning with a stint as a White House intern in 1993. He worked on Cathy Woolard's campaign for Atlanta city council president in 2001 and as research director and press secretary for her 2004 Congressional campaign. Other recent political experience includes three years as a governmental affairs representative for technology concerns and progressive causes, as well as engagements with environmental organizations such as the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and the Georgia Water Coalition. Earlier in his career, Greg worked on the news staff of the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and spent two years in the litigation practice of a law firm in Chicago.

Josh Hendler

Josh Hendler currently serves as Director of Engineering at the Democratic National Committee, working as the project manager for the National Voter Database project. Prior to joining the DNC, Josh most recently directed Internet technology on the British Labor Party's re-election campaign. He was Manager of Software Development for Kerry-Edwards 2004, overseeing the development of organizing and online fundraising applications. Josh also served as a developer and program manager of open source efforts at the Clark 2004 campaign in Little Rock during the primaries. Before entering politics, Josh was a technology manager at Major League Baseball Advanced Media.

Marc Laitin

Marc is a Principal at Wired for Change, a campaign strategies and technology consulting firm specializing in building online communities, driving supporters to action, and achieving online and offline objectives. In addition to his work at Wired for Change, Marc is the treasurer of StartChange PAC and was a director of the Running for Change PAC, which organized the Run Against Bush campaign, Stop Sinclair and Concerts for Change, and raised over $700,000 from over 20,000 donors. Prior to founding Running for Change, Marc was working part-time as a high school economics teacher at a DC public charter school and researching and writing a high school economics textbook with Alan Krueger. Marc is a graduate of Harvard where he majored in Economics. At Wired for Change, Marc focuses on providing strategic advice to clients and managing development projects.

Rosalyn Lemieux

Rosalyn Lemieux, New Organizing Institute’s Executive Director worked for MoveOn.org Political Action in various capacities—including staff trainer, online organizer, and volunteer program manager from April 2004 to July 2006. Prior to joining MoveOn, Rosalyn operated a small independent consulting business, conducting online campaigns for progressive candidates and causes. She got her start in online organizing while serving as the Feminist Majority Foundation’s web team director from 1999-2003.

Tom Matzzie

As the Washington Director of MoveOn.org Political Action, Tom oversees MoveOn's legislative advocacy on a range of issues including Social Security, the Courts, the Environment, budget and tax issues, the war in Iraq and other issues important to MoveOn’s 3 million members. Prior to joining MoveOn Tom was Director of Online Organizing for the Kerry-Edwards campaign — managing an organizing program for the campaign’s 2.8 million person e-mail list. From 2000 to 2004 he was Online Mobilization Director at the AFL-CIO building the union movement’s Internet program — including the 3.2 million e-mail activists on the lists of the unions of the AFL-CIO. Tom is also one of the top Social Security organizers in the country. From 1998 to 2000 he organized the coalition opposing Social Security privatization at the Campaign for America's Future. He has appeared on network television, on syndicated radio and is cited by The New York Times, the Associated Press, The Washington Post and other major daily publications.

Amanda Michel

Amanda Michel is the Communications Director of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law, where she is responsible for the Center's press, communications, and community building efforts. Before joining the Berkman Center, Amanda worked on the Dean and Kerry campaigns. She was National Director of Generation Dean, Howard Dean's official youth outreach program. On the Kerry campaign, Amanda created and directed the Media Corps program, the campaign's grassroots media effort, and later in the campaign she and Zack Exley supervised Ohio's Internet-field operation. Along with other members of the Kerry Internet team, Amanda co-founded the New Organizing Institute, which trains young techies and organizers in the essentials of campaigning online.

Aaron Myers

Aaron Myers is an internet consultant who has served on the staffs of the Kerry/Edwards and Gore presidential campaigns, in addition to working for Sen. Harkin. For Gore 2000, Aaron functioned as the campaign's senior Web producer. He has guided the creation of a variety of online advocacy and promotional projects, designed web sites and internet strategy plans for non-profit organizations, labor unions, and corporations. Aaron majored in Political Communication at the George Washington University.

Frank O'Brien

Frank O'Brien is widely recognized as one of the leading direct marketing strategists in the nation. He is the president of OMP, a full-service fundraising and communications agency that serves leading causes in the United States. Over the past two decades, Frank has built OMP into a highly respected consulting firm with an ability to move with ease in the charitable, political and advocacy worlds. Frank serves both as a mentor to OMP staff and a hands-on partner with the agency's clients.

Eli Pariser

Executive Director of MoveOn.org Political Action, Eli Pariser joined the organization after starting 9-11peace.org, an international peace campaign with over half a million supporters in 192 countries. (9-11peace.org is now a part of MoveOn.org.) Eli directed MoveOn's campaign against the Iraq war, tripling the member base in the process, and was one of the co-founders of the ad contest Bush in 30 Seconds. He's been profiled in the New York Times Magazine, Money Magazine, Details, Mother Jones, and other publications, and has appeared on every major cable news channel and television network. Eli studied political science at Simon's Rock College. He is originally from Camden, Maine, and now lives in Portland, Maine.

Ari Rabin-Havt

Ari Rabin-Havt currently works in the United States Senate in Harry Reid’s office. He has loved politics for as long as he can remember. With college friend Ben Brandzel, he founded a nationwide student organization called Click Back America, which was eventually re-branded as MoveOn Student Action. He also served as Deputy Director of Internet Communications on John Kerry's presidential campaign. Previously Ari worked at Penn Schoen and Berland Associates, a Washington DC based polling and market research firm, and in Rep. Ted Strickland's (OH-6) office.

Benjamin Rahn

Ben Rahn went on leave from a Ph.D. program in theoretical physics to found ActBlue with Matt DeBergalis in 2004. Before entering politics, Ben was an NSF graduate fellow at Caltech. His work on multi-scale physics has been published in Physics Review A and been presented in conferences around the country, and he received a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad. Ben has served as Assistant Director of MIT's Research Science Institute, a program for high-school students that has produced more Intel/Westinghouse Science Talent Search finalists than any other organization in the country. In addition to his work with ActBlue, Ben is currently the Resident Physics Tutor at Harvard's Pforzheimer House, where he aids Harvard undergraduates in navigating personal and academic challenges and builds the House's intellectual and social community. Ben holds a B.A. from Harvard College.

Joe Rospars

Joe Rospars is a founding partner at Blue State Digital and specializes in Internet strategy, communications and fundraising. Since helping found the company, he has developed and implemented strategies that have made news, recruited hundreds of thousands of volunteers, and raised millions of dollars for clients. Before his work at Blue State Digital, he worked for Gov. Howard Dean’s presidential campaign where he wrote and edited emails that were sent to hundreds of thousands of supporters and provided content for the highly praised Web site and blog. Joe also worked on message development, online brand building, and grassroots organizing for the campaign. Prior to the campaign, he taught English in Stockholm, Sweden and wrote for NotGeniuses.com, a political blog.

Mary Shull

Mary used to be pretty typical of the overburdened, uninvolved American. She would read the news and feel peeved and powerless. So many issues that the Pittsburgh stay-at-home mother cared about--from the war in Iraq to the deficit. But with a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old, so little time to get involved. Mary found that getting involved isn't as daunting as it might seem. Eager to do something, she signed up with MoveOn.org, the grass-roots Internet advocacy group. Still, when an organizer asked her to help get out the vote in the 2004 election, her first thought was: "Are you crazy? I have two little kids I'm making dinner for." Nonetheless, she set out nervously the next day, children in tow, to knock on neighbors' doors. "People started thanking me, and I thought, this is pretty cool."

Madeline Stanionis

Madeline is an experienced online fundraising, advocacy, and marketing consultant, speaker, and author. Until mid-2006, she was the President and Creative Director of Donordigital, a full-service online agency which helps nonprofit organizations, campaigns, and socially responsible businesses use the Internet to build their constituencies and achieve their goals. Madeline has been raising money, organizing, and communicating for organizations and causes for 20 years. She is also a frequent speaker and writer in fundraising, advocacy, and technology conferences and publications across the country. Madeline is a trainer and adviser to the New Organizing Institute, and co-convenes Web of Change, an international annual gathering that connects global leaders in online communications, technology, and activism who are actively building a better world. She is the author of The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Raising Thousands (If Not Tens of Thousands) of Dollars with E-mail.

Tim Tagaris

Netroots wizard and ex-Marine, Tim is a brilliant organizer, a dedicated progressive and a fantastic blogger and visionary. To give you a little history, Tim's a netroots pioneer. He managed the first netroots candidate, Jeff Seeman, to a surprisingly good showing. In Pennsylvania, he caught young Republicans outside of a Santorum event on video chanting 'Hey hey, ho ho, Social Security's got to go', a major blow to the privatization scam. Then in Ohio he built GrowOhio.org for Sherrod Brown before providing the crucial link between the Ohio blogs and the national blogosphere that led to Hackett's fantastic rise during the Ohio 2nd race against Jean Schmidt. Tim played an instrumental role as a blogger at the DNC before heading to Connecticut to direct internet communications for Ned Lamont.

Kevin Thurman

Kevin is a Senior Strategist for Blue State Digital. Kevin crafts online programs that produce results by reaching, engaging and energizing an organization's audience. Prior to joining Blue State, Kevin worked as an online consultant for non-profit clients such as the Human Rights Campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as political leaders like Sen. Russ Feingold and Sen. Gary Hart.

Ann E. Yoders

Ann E. Yoders is the CEO and Founder of Bronx Cash Register Consulting Company. Prior to the starting Bronx Consulting, Ann worked for the Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group - the company responsible for the first campaign website (Diane Feinstein in 1994). With CTSG, Ann worked on strategy and online engagement. Ann consulted for such clients as The Turner Foundation, former Oregon Gov. John