Lobbying Congress: Advocacy and Digital Empowerment
How has digital technology changed advocacy? What should influence look like in a networked social environment? How can individuals best affect government? What role should intermediaries, advocacy organizations, opinion leaders and movement organizers play in organizing government?
Matt Stoller is a political consultant and blogger. He has worked in liberal internet politics for five years in a variety of institutional and outsider roles, including blogging for Jon Corzine for Governor in 2005, working in communications and blog outreach for the Democratic National Convention in 2004 where he started the first blog for a national political convention, and embedded himself in the campaigns of Ned Lamont in 2006 and Donna Edwards from 2006-2008. His consulting clients have included MSNBC, Free Press, Actblue, Working Assets, the Sunlight Foundation, NDN, Miramax Books and They Work for Us.
John Wonderlich is the Sunlight Foundation's program director. After starting the Congressional Committees Project on Daily Kos, he organized a collaborative examination of the U.S. House of Representatives—The Open House Project. This work resulted in his joining the Sunlight Foundation, advocating for transparent and accountable government. He has a degree in philosophy from Penn State University.
