Speakers

Micah Sifry


Micah L. Sifry is co-founder and editor of Personal Democracy Forum, a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics, and TechPresident.com, an award-winning group blog on how the candidates and the web use each other.

In addition to organizing the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference with his partner Andrew Rasiej, Micah consults political organizations, non-profits and media entities on adapting to the web, and is currently a senior technology advisor to the Sunlight Foundation. Micah was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years and now keeps a keeps a personal blog. He is the author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America and co-edited The Iraq War Reader, The Gulf War Reader and Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? with Nancy Watzman. He is also an adjunct professor at the Political Science Department of the City University of New York/Graduate Center.

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