Micah Sifry is co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics and TechPresident.com, its award-winning group blog on how the American presidential candidates are using the web and how the web is using them. In addition to organizing the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. In that capacity, he has been a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation since its founding in 2006. The Avi Chai Foundation is also currently a client.
Recently, he appeared on the PBS NewsHour debating the impact of the Internet on democracy, and he has written for numerous publications over the course of his career, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, TalkingPointsMemo, Newsday, Salon.com, Columbia Journalism Review, World Business, The New York Observer, George, Los Angeles, Elle, Inside Media, The Village Voice, YES Magazine, and The Progressive.
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