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Dave Johnson
Blogger
Seeing the Forest
Redwood City,
CA
Professional Background and Interests:
Blogger at Seeing the Forest.
Fellow at Commonweal Institute.
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.
David Mermin
Partner
Lake Research Partners
Berkeley,
CA
Professional Background and Interests:
David Mermin is a partner in Lake Research Partners (LRP) and heads the firm’s Oakland office. LRP is the national political research firm established in 1995 by Celinda Lake, one of the Democratic Party’s leading strategists. LRP advises dozens of Democratic incumbents and challengers at all levels of the electoral process, as well as a wide range of non-partisan advocacy organizations, foundations, and labor unions. LRP has nationally recognized expertise on the politics of the women’s vote, health care issues, the environment, and the labor movement. LRP has offices in Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.
Marty Kearns
Founder
Netcentric Campaigns
Silver Spring,
MD
Professional Background and Interests:
Martin Kearns has been Co-Founder and Executive Director of Green Media Toolshed (GMT) since May of 2000. GMT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the environmental movement communicate more effectively by offering a professional suite of communication tools, trainings and services. GMT offers the technology groups need along with the training and support to develop strategies that leverage those tools for the benefit member organizations and coalitions.
Previously, Kearns founded the Georgia River Network, a state based conservation group solely dedicated to the conservation of Georgia's rivers. Kearns also served as Executive Director of the Georgia River Network. He worked for three years for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Kearns has been political fundraiser for candidates for the US House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Kearns holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science from LeMoyne College and a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from Yale.
Kearns spent two years in Kingston, Jamaica as a Jesuit International Volunteer teaching computers at St. George's College and working with inner city youth. He is a runner, hiker and fisherman. He and his wife Maryann are raising their two little boys in Silver Spring, MD.
John Luongo
Peter Glenshaw
Chair and Co-Founder
Democracy for New Hampshire
Lyme,
NH
Professional Background and Interests:
I am interested in how we take lessons from NH election success in 2004 to other purple, rural states. I also want to ask how we can invest in messengers & organizations (not politicians) who can increase the number of likely voters who support a socially progressive, fiscally responsible worldview. The project which aims to achieve these goals is known as the Progressive Venture Fund.
I've been a university administrator and fundraiser for 17 years, working at Georgetown University, Harvard University, and Dartmouth College. I've also helped start and manage two startup companies, one of which produced the first-ever encyclopedia about the African diaspora in both print and CD- ROM. I'm a member of the Lyme School Board, the Chair of the Lyme Democratic Committee, and a Grafton County delegate to the Democratic State Committee. I was a co-captain for Howard Dean in the New Hampshire 2004 primary, and led the Upper Valley Meetup from September 2003 until May 2004. A snowboarder and occasional triathlete, I'm married to Elizabeth Glenshaw and together we have three children.
Patrick J Bresette
Associate Program Director, Public Works: the Demos Center for the Public Sector
Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action
Bastrop,
Texas
Professional Background and Interests:
Patrick joined Dēmos in 2004 after thirteen years as Associate Director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin, Texas and before that as a legislative aide in the Texas House of Representatives. Patrick has an MPA from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA in Sculpture from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Patrick grew up in Washington. DC and has lived in Texas since 1982 He has raised four children together with his spouse Debbie.
Michael Huttner
Executive Director
ProgressNow.org
Boulder,
CO
Professional Background and Interests:
Michael Huttner is the Executive Director of ProgressNow.org and ProgressNowAction.org. As a private political consultant Mr. Huttner helped spearhead Colorado’s legislative efforts in 2004. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law where he teaches Legislation and Lobbying. Mr. Huttner worked as Policy Advisor to Governor Roy Romer and before returning to Denver he clerked at the White House for the Office of the Counsel to the President.
Mr. Huttner earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. He recently got married to Debbie Herz, a lawyer by training who now teaches Yoga; they live in Boulder with their dog Yoshi.
Juan M. Proaño
President
Plus Three
New York,
New York
Professional Background and Interests:
Juan M. Proaño is co-founder and President of Plus Three, which was formed in 2001 to improve the way progressive organizations build constituent groups and fundraise by giving them immediate access to the widest array of contributors, while reducing the cost of each dollar raised. During the last 10 years Juan has developed a level of expertise in the areas of product development, strategic marketing and software integration that have produced industry leading technologies and best practices in the fields of database marketing, email delivery technologies and one-to-one communications tactics for GOTV and fundraising efforts.
Dave Tanner
Chief of Staff
Democracy Alliance
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.
