2009 Panelist Bios | Advisory Committee Bios
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Allyson Kapin Panel: Web 2.0: Hot Or Not? As the Founding Partner of Rad Campaign, Allyson serves as the Executive Creative Director and leads the firm's client and online strategic services. For over a decade Allyson has helped non-profit organizations create dynamic and award-winning websites and online marketing and recruitment campaigns. She works with her clients to meet their web needs and maximize their online effectiveness to create real world impact. As part of the first generation of online advocacy experts, Allyson has a thorough understanding of the rapidly changing world of online activism. She is an expert in the latest trends in social networking, blogging, online video and other online tools and strategies and advises her clients on how to cost effectively incorporate them into their Internet plans and online campaigns. Her insights can be found on the Rad Blog. Her web campaigns have been recognized with several prestigious web awards and featured on several top media networks ranging from CNN to NPR and the Daily Show with John Stewart. |
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Sheila Krumholz Panel: Democratizing Data and Watch-Dogging the Government Sheila is the Exexutive Director of the Center for Responsive Politics’s Executive Director, serving as the organization’s chief administrator, the liaison to its board and major funders and its primary spokesperson. Sheila became Executive Director in December 2006, having served for eight years as CRP’s Research Director, supervising data analysis for OpenSecrets.org and CRP’s clients. She first joined the CRP staff in 1989 and was assistant editor of the very first edition of Open Secrets, the Center’s flagship publication. Sheila has a degree in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Minnesota. |
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Charlene Li Panel: Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling Charlene Li is an independent thought leader on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. She has a blog, "The Altimeter" that discusses these topics at blog.altimetergroup.com. She is also the co-author of the business bestseller, "Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies", published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008. Charlene is one of the most frequently-quoted industry analysts and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USAToday, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought after public speaker and has presented frequently at top technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo, SXSW, and adTech. Most recently, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. |
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Dee McCrorey Panel: Innovation and Tech Career Reinvention Dolores "Dee" McCrorey, Chief Risk Guru and Innovation Coach of Risktaking for Success LLC, brings her passion for leading organizations and professionals through change and transformation via workplace reinvention and "homegrown" corporate entrepreneurship. Dee launched her venture in 2000 after a successful twenty-five-year career serving in a variety of leadership, program and middle management roles for Fortune 500 companies, with a mission to bring practical innovation and Responsible Risktaking™ to the enterprise. She became hooked on the business, career and social value of Web 2.0 tools in 2006 after the launch of her blog The Ultimate Corporate Entrepreneur. Today, Dee’s social media mix includes a video blog Road to Innovation.TV, two Internet radio shows on BlogTalkRadio—Coach for Innovation and Big Dreamers! The Reinvent Success Show. You’ll also find her experimenting with the marketing power of Facebook and Twitter. |
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Susan Mernit Panel: Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling Susan Mernit is a co-founder of Pink Garage, a new online community and resource for women entrepreneurs, and a product development, business strategy and social media consultant who recently ran the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge, awarding $5MM to support innovative local projects that expand online news and community discourse. She is actively consulting with non-profits, start-ups, foundations and mission-driven companies on business and product development strategy and execution, social media strategy, and on leadership and reinvention. Passionate about women's issues and women entrepreneurs, she recently led a guerilla action to mentor women applying to ycombinator, an early stage tech incubator. Her last startup (Peoples' Software Company) was selected as a 2008 TechStars incubator company (techstars.org) She is a BlogHer contributing editor on Sex & Relationships, a former exec at Yahoo, AOL, Netscape and Advance Internet, a dedicated blogger and a long time online news and media person. |
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Shireen Mitchell Panel: Social Networks and Diversity Barriers Shireen is the founder and Executive Director of Digital Sisters/Sistas, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on using digital media and technology to access self-sufficiency tools for women and children who are traditionally underserved. Shireen is also president of the Board of Directors of Community Technology Centers' Network, a national affiliation of initiatives and organizations around the country that collectively promotes effective technology integration for the social, civic, and economic security into the lives of low-income communities. Furthermore she is Chair of the Media and Technology Task Force of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO). |
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Rebecca Moore Panel: Tools Galore in Online Communications Rebecca Moore is a computer scientist and longtime software professional. At Google, she conceived and now manages the Google Earth Outreach program, which supports nonprofits, communities and indigenous peoples around the world in applying Google's mapping tools to the world's pressing problems in areas such as environmental conservation, human rights, cultural preservation and creating a sustainable society. Her personal work using Google Earth was recently instrumental in stopping a plan to log more than a thousand acres of redwoods in her Santa Cruz Mountain community. |
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Amy Muller Panel: Running Your Own Startup Amy is the cofounder of Get Satisfaction and brings over a decade of project management, front-end development, and entrepreneurial experience. She co-founded Rubyred Labs with partners Thor Muller and Jonathan Grubb where she served as Lead Project Manager and Director of Operations. A Web application consultancy, Rubyred worked with several start-ups like Activeweave (Stickis), KDA (Revelation) and Dialed In, as well as more established brands like Yahoo! and Heavy.com. Before founding her freelance consultancy, Muller Consulting, she worked at Brightwire and throughout the '90s at Prophet Communications and Frog Design. As Site Producer for the first incarnation of Violet, an early e-commerce company, she managed Web design and production efforts. (You can see the fabulous, newly re-launched Violet here!) During it's brief lifetime she also managed the vibrant and passionate Valleyschwag community. |
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Michelle Murrain Panel: Women and Open Source Michelle Murrain, Ph.D. has worked with nonprofit and educational organizations on technology issues, particularly internet technologies, since 1994, and is a nationally recognized leader in the nonprofit technology field. She is the coordinator of the Non Profit Open Source Initiative (NOSI). She is also principal of MetaCentric Technology Advising, a technology consulting practice focused on helping nonprofits implement technology sustainably. She blogs on nonprofit technology at Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology. |
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Erica Priggen Panel: Video Activism Eric is a producer for Free Range Studios. Driven by a passion for storytelling, she believes that film is one of the most effective ways to inspire people to action. Her volunteer work with youth, encouraging creativity as the seed for strong self-esteem, and her Master's work facilitating workshops for personal storytelling as a way for people to find their voice have helped build her foundation for fueling social and environmental change through narrative. |
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Laura S. Quinn Panel: Tools Galore in Online Communications Laura has been working in the software sector for more than ten years. As Idealware's Director, she directs Idealware's research and writing to provide candid reports and articles about nonprofit software. Prior to Idealware, Laura founded Alder Consulting, where she helped helped nonprofits create internet strategies, select appropriate software, and then build sophisticated websites on a limited budget. She has also selected software, designed interfaces and conducted user research for multi-million dollar software and website implementations with such companies as Accenture and iXL. Laura is a frequent speaker and writer on nonprofit software topics. More bios coming soon! |
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WOMEN ARE UNDERREPRESENTED
Some of the most gifted folks in technology are women yet they are rarely quoted as experts by the mainstream media and blogs. Furthermore women are significantly underrepresented on panels at major technology conferences. -
TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS
The teleSummit aims to break down the barriers and showcase the brilliant talents of women who tech out. -
TO MOBILIZE A NETWORK OF WOMEN
One of our long term goals is to create a database of women technology experts to be used as a resource for the media and tech conference organizers. This database will not only provide a strong network of women in the technology sector but support the creative talents and energies of women who thrive in this arena.