| OpenLeft is a news, analysis and action website dedicated toward building a progressive governing majority in America. The three founding partners are Chris Bowers, Mike Lux, and Matt Stoller.
For more information on the term "OpenLeft," please see the article "What Is OpenLeft.com?" by Matt Stoller.
You can reach Chris Bowers at christopher_j_bowers@yahoo.com. For advertising inquiries, e-mail Adam Bink at adambink@gmail.com.
Chris Bowers was a full-time editor at MyDD from May 2004 until June 2007. A compilation of his most influential writing on MyDD can be found here. Some of his projects have included the creation of the Liberal Blog Advertising Network, the first scientifically random poll of progressive netroots activists, the Use It Or Lose It campaign, the nation's most accurate forecast of Democratic house pickups in 2006, and the 2006 Googlebomb the Elections campaign. He is also the treasurer of BlogPac, a fellow at the Commonweal Institute, on the advisory board of The Democratic Strategist, and has personally joined in "the silent revolution" by winning a seat on the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee. Bowers is 33, lives in Philadelphia, and occasionally works as a netroots consultant for progressive candidates and organizations including SEIU, Media Matters, and Congressman Brad Miller's 2006 re-election campaign.
Mike Lux is the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, L.L.C., a political consulting firm founded in 1999, focused on strategic political consulting for non-profits, labor unions, PACs and progressive donors. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Political Action at People For the American Way (PFAW), and the PFAW Foundation, and served at the White House from January 1993 to mid-1995 as a Special Assistant to the President for Public Liaison. He also played a role in five different presidential campaign teams. While at Progressive Strategies, Lux has founded, and currently chairs a number of new organizations and projects, including American Family Voices, and the Progressive Donor Network. Mike currently serves on the boards of several important organizations, including the Arca Foundation, Americans United For Change, Center for Progressive Leadership, and Progressive Majority, the last three of which he co-founded. He also was a co-founder of Ballot Initiative Strategy Center and Women's Voices/Women Vote, has served on several other boards throughout his career, and played a role in helping launch the Center for American Progress and Air America. He is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post.
In November of 2008, Mike was named to the Obama-Biden Transition Team. In that role, he served as an advisor to the Public Liaison on dealings with the progressive community and has helped shape the office of Public Liaison based on his past experience working on the Clinton-Gore Transition, as well as in the White House.
On January 14, 2009, Lux released his first book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be. Lux's book was published by Wiley & Sons.
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Matt Stoller is the senior policy analyst for Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida. Before that, he was a political activist/blogger in DC, and edited MyDD from November 2005 until June 2007. He also consulted for the Sunlight Foundation, FreePress.net, and Working Assets as well as proactively networking other progressive bloggers/internet activists and progressive professionals. In 2006 Stoller was very involved in supporting Ned Lamont's campaign to replace Joe Lieberman as senator from Connecticut, a project he undertook after he came off of the Jon Corzine for Governor in New Jersey, where he blogged for the campaign. Stoller was one of the co-creators of The Blogging of the President, which explored the ongoing digital transformation of politics first in weblog format and later as a nationally syndicated talk radio show from Minnesota Public Radio. This represented one of the first attempts to bring the conversation in the blogosphere directly into the broadcast media. In addition to his daily work, he has testified before the Federal Election Commission on the role of electronic media in politics, and is the co-author with Chris Bowers of a report on electronic communities in politics. Stoller started blogging in response to the buildup to the Iraq War in 2002. Stoller worked on the Draft Clark movement to bring Wesley Clark into the nominating race for president of the United States. |
