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Darrin Bodner
Chief Operating Officer
Media Matters for America
Washington,
DC
Professional Background and Interests:
PROGRESSIVE ROUNDTABLE ADVISOR. A member of the Media Matters team since the organization's conception, Darrin Bodner has more than a decade of government, campaign, nonprofit and corporate experience. Most recently, Bodner served as development director for the award-winning Off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company. He also served as an adviser to former New York City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone, as well as chief fund-raiser for Vallone's mayoral campaign. Bodner holds a bachelor of arts from Dickinson College.
Leonard M. Salle
President
Portola Valley,
CA
Professional Background and Interests:
Leonard M. Salle, President and co-founder of the Commonweal Institute, brings a business and systems perspective to the promotion of moderate-progressive ideas. As a civil engineer in high level management positions, he worked extensively with the the public and the government in creation of major projects, including new towns. His experience with engineering systems, the public, and political bodies, as well as an active and ongoing interest in political and social issues, informed his thinking about the need for an infrastructure for advancing a progressive movement. It was with this need in mind that he co-founded the Commonweal Institute in 2001.
Bob Loeb
Business Development Specialist
NetCentric Campaigns, a division of Green Media Toolshed
Glen Ridge,
NJ
Professional Background and Interests:
I'm a social entrepreneur, currently working with Green Media Toolshed to create a business plan for offering the NetCentric Media Campaign Hub as a resource for the entire progressive community.
I am also a member of the Board of the Communications Consortium Media Center, which works on collaborative media campaigns funded by progressive foundations.
Steven Katz
Project Director
The Media Consortium
Fairfax,
CA
Professional Background and Interests:
Steven Katz is Associate Publisher for Mother Jones magazine and Project Director for The Media Consortium. Steve has thirty years experience working with non-profit organizations focusing on the environment, the arts, social justice, and
neighborhood-based housing development. He also serves on the board of directors of the Turtle Island Restoration Network, and the As You Sow Foundation. Steve received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1987, and his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1974. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Rachelle and son Noah.
Toby Chaudhuri
Communications Director
Campaign for America's Future
Arlington,
Va.
Professional Background and Interests:
WEBSITE ACCESS ONLY; WILL NOT ATTEND CONVENING. Toby Chaudhuri directs communications at the Campaign for America’s Future’s Washington headquarters. He works with progressive non-profit organizations, political campaigns and people in public office to develop messages and strategies to communicate with the public and influence public policy. Chaudhuri has managed more than $25 million in state and federal campaigns and has worked at the helm of national media operations. He fought corruption and helped to enact historic reforms directing strategic communications at Common Cause; took on corporate polluters to provide safe drinking water as a political appointee to President Clinton; and worked to elect several principled state and federal candidates including serving as deputy press secretary to Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign. Before joining America’s Future, Chaudhuri worked hard to protect sick and hungry children from the right wing as Marian Wright Edelman’s spokesman and media strategist at the Children’s Defense Fund.
