The Political Voices of Women

This list began at sairy.com as a response to a Mother Jones issue about the movers and shakers in tech and politics that only included two women. I knew there were a lot more incredible people they did not include in their piece and I blogged about that, citing a few names as examples. Catherine then asked me to turn it into a list and using her list of bloggers as an example, I came up with what’s below.

These women work in areas related to technology and government who are based (at least most of the time) in the U.S.. That could mean anything related to online politics, digital democracy, or information technology policy. I had a difficult time trying to narrow the list any farther because there’s so much overlap involved and because all of these women are amazing. This is a list independent of the women political blogger list, although there is some crossover.

We hope this list will become a living document with changes added as we receive updates and new information, and we expect this list will grow. We hope that everyone included on the list will appreciate our wanting to share this information as resources for others. Any updates, errors or additions, please contact me or Catherine Morgan.

Women in Technology and Politics &/or Policy

Morra Aarons – Internet communications expert, Political Director for BlogHer, former VP of Interactive at Edelman, former Director of Internet Marketing for DNC & John Kerry for President

Ruchika Agrawal – Co-founder of the Stanford Student Computer and Network Privacy Project, IPIOP Policy Analyst Fellow for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

Annie Anton – Member of U.S. Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) Executive Board; Professor at North Carolina State University

Joan Blades – Cofounder of MoveOn.org & MomsRising.org, author of The Motherhood Manifesto

Becky Bond – Political Director at CREDO Mobile and Working Assets

Danah Boyd – PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Information Sciences, Social Media Expert

Jamie Brown – Federal Relations Counsel for Google

Jean Camp – Professor for Informatics, Telecommunications and Computer Science at Indiana University, former board member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, USACM member

Emily Campbell – senior strategist for DonorDigital, formerly of DNC, DCCC and Alliance for Justice

Tuna Chaterjee – Fellow at the Berkman Center and a Staff Attorney with the Citizen Media Law Project

Judi Clark – Formerly of CPSR, Net Action Board Member, Technology Policy Expert & Attorney

Wendy Cohen- Manager of Community and Alliances at Participant Media and the Co-Founder and National Director of Screening Liberally, former Community Manager at the Huffington Post

Cindy Cohn – Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Lillie Coney – Associate Director for EPIC, USACM Member & former Analyst, CPSR Board Member

Cheryl Contee – Consultant & Partner at Fission Strategy, former West Coast Lead Digital Strategist for Fleishman-Hillard

Alissa Cooper – Policy Analyst for the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)

Gina Cooper – Founder of Netroots Nation (formerly Yearly Kos Conference)

Lorrie Cranor – EFF Board Member, Internet Privacy Policy Expert, Professor and Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, USACM Member

Susan Crawford – Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, former Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, Member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, Founder of OneWebDay

Laura Dawn – Creative and Cultural Director of MoveOn.org

Rebecca Donatelli – Chairman of Campaign Solutions & former lead Internet consultant for John McCain 2000

Judith Donath – Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab

Esther Dyson – Founding Chair of ICANN, Former Chair of EFF Board, Author of Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age

Allison Fine – Senior Fellow, Democracy Team at Demos, Former CEO of E-Volve Foundation, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age

Mindy Finn – former eStrategy Director for Mitt Romney

Judith Freeman – Co-Founder and CEO of the New Organizing Institute, former Senior Political Strategist at the AFL-CIO, Internet operations for John Kerry’s ’04 campaign

Gisele Garelik – New York Director for EchoDitto, former Assistant Director of UJCweb

Catherine Geanuracos – Principal at Cader Strategies, Strategist for LiveEarth, Co-founder at YrMomma4Obama, former Senior Analyst with Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., former CTO for MomsRising.org, former Strategist for MoveOn.org

Lauren Gelman – Executive Director of Stanford Center for Internet & Society, Board Treasurer for CPSR

Julie Barko Germany – Director for Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at the George Washington School of Political Management & Author

Susie Gorden – VP of Campaign Strategy of E-Advocates, former Director of Government Outreach and Citizen Communications for Capitol Advantage

Sarah Granger – Founder of FutureCampaigns, former Project Director for CPSR, former Director of Internet Strategy & Operations for U.S. Senator Gary Hart’s ’04 presidential exploratory organization, USACM member, technology & politics National Correspondent for The Huffington Post “Off the Bus” Project

Jennifer Granick – Civil Liberties Director for the EFF, former Executive Director for Stanford Center for Internet & Society

Lisa Green – Team Manager for Campaign & Elections Group at Google

Robin Gross – Executive Director of IP Justice, former Staff Attorney for EFF, Member of Advisory Group to U.N. Internet Governance Forum, Board Member, Union for the Public Domain, Advisory Board Member for CPSR Peru

Leslie Harris – President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, former Director of Public Policy for People for the American Way, former Chief Legislative Counsel for the Washington National Office of the American Civil Liberties Union

Gwen Hinze – International Policy Director for the EFF

Marcia Hofmann – Staff Attorney for the EFF, former Director for the Open Government Project for EPIC

Heather Holdridge – Director of Political Advocacy for Care2, former Online Organizing Director for Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group (CTSG)

Deborah Hurley – Chair of EPIC Board, Consultant to NGOs in ICT Policy, former Director of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project

Karen Jagoda – Co-Founder and President of E-Voter Institute

Dana Kaplan – Cofounder & COO of blip.tv

Lorraine Kisselburgh – USACM Member, PhD candidate at Purdue University, former Director of Information Technology at Purdue University

Kathryn Kleiman – Director of ACM Internet Governance Project, Founding Member of ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency, USACM Member

Michelle Kraus – Managing Partner for Technlogy & Politics, former CEO of Digital Campaigns

Audrie Krause – Founder of Net Action, Former Executive Director for CPSR

Justine Lam – Director of Online Marketing for Politicker.com, eCampaign Director of Ron Paul ’08

Liz Mair – Online Communications Director, eCampaign Division, Republican National Committee

Heather Mansfield – Founder of DIOSA Communications, formerly of Pew Center for Civic Journalism, founder of eActivist.org (sold to Capitol Advantage)

Amanda Michel – Director of Huffington Post’s “Off The Bus” Project, former Assignment Zero staff, former National Director of Generation Dean, former MediaCorps manager for Kerry-Edwards in ’04

Ellen Miller – Cofounder & Executive Director of the Sunlight Foundation

Shireen Mitchell – Founder & Director of Digital Sisters/Sistas, Inc., President of Community Technology Centers’ Network, Chair of Media & Technology Task Force for National Council of Women’s Organizations

Deirdre Mulligan – Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and a Clinical Professor of Law at Boalt, former Staff Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology

Annalee Newitz – Board Vice President for CPSR, technology journalist

Karina Newton – Director of New Media, Speaker Pelosi’s Office

Perla Ni – Cofounder of Voterwatch & Great Nonprofits.org as well as Grassroots.com, Founder & publisher of Stanford Social Innovation Review

Beth Noveck – New York Law School Professor of Law, Director for the Institute for Information Law and Policy, Director of the Democracy Design Workshop

Crystal Patterson – Blog Manager for Hillary Clinton for President, former Online Operations Manager for Senator Edward Kennedy ’06, formerly of DCCC

Sylvia Paull – Founder & Facilitator of Cybersalon and GraceNet

Michelle Peacock – Senior Director for Government Global Relations at PayPal (eBay)

April Pedersen – Executive Director & Co-Founder of Democracy In Action and Wired for Change, former Acting Executive Director of CIVIC

Erika Shehan Poole – USACM Member, PhD Candidate at Georgia Tech, former employee of the Privacy Office of the Department of Homeland Security and CERIAS

Laura Quinn – CEO of Catalist, Founding Partner of QRS Newsmedia, Inc., DNC strategist, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Vice President Gore, former Director of the Democratic Technology and Communications Committee for the Democratic Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate

Laurie Racine – Co-founder of Public Knowledge, former President of the Center of the Public Domain

Tanya Renne – Founder of Orchid Suites

Jennifer Rexford – Professor of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, USACM Member, Chair of ACM SIGCOMM

Tracy Russo – Founder at Women in Politics & Technology, President of Russo Strategies, LLC, former online communications staffer
for DNC, former Deputy Online Communications Director for John Edwards for President

Virginia Rezmierski – USACM Member, University of Michigan Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Information and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, former Director of the Office of Policy Development and Education within the Office of the CIO at the University of Michigan

Julia Rosen – Online Political Director for the Courage Campaign, formerly of Common Cause

Liza Sabater – Founder of Feminist Bloggers Network, Digital Ethnorati Project, and the Digital Civil Rights Workshop, Blogger for Culture Kitchen, BlogHer

Katelyn Sabochik – Senior Strategist for Blue State Digital, formerly of AFL-CIO

Pam Samuelson – Co-Director for UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Professor at School of Information and Law, EFF Board Member, Advisor for Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic

Gabriela Schneider – Communications Director for the Sunlight Foundation

Nancy Scola – Writer & Blogger for TechPresident, Personal Democracy Forum, and Creative Commons, former Internet team member and Outreach Coordinator for Forward Together

Suzanne Seggerman – Cofounder and President of Games 4 Change (G4C), former Director at WebLab

Barbara Simons – USACM Founder and Co-Chair, Former ACM President

Ruby Sinreich – Founder and Editor of Orangepolitics.org, nonprofit technology advisor

Jenn Smith – Executive Vice President for Watershed, former Vice President of DonorDigital, strategist for CARE, Human Rights Campaign

Gigi Sohn – President & Co-Founder for Public Knowledge, former Executive Director of the Media Access Project, former Adjunct Professor for Georgetown University

Madeline Stanionis – Cofounder and CEO of Watershed, Internet activism strategist, former President and Creative Director of DonorDigital, author of Raising Thousands (if not Tens of Thousands)of Dollars with Email, strategist for NARAL and CARE

Shari Steele – Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), former EFF Legal Director

Zephyr Teachout – Visiting Assistant Professor for Duke University School of Law, former National Director of the Sunlight Foundation, America Coming Together and Current TV, former fellow for the Berkman Center for Law & Technology, former online organizing director for the Dean for America

Emy Tseng – Project Director for Digital Inclusion Initiative for the City & County of San Francisco, former Managing Director for Innovation Funders Network, formerly of Ford Foundation

Gina Vanderloop – Founder of ROI Solutions

Katrin Verclas – Co-Founder of MobileActive.org, former Executive Director of NTEN (the Nonprofit Technology Network)

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Sarah Granger writes about technology and politics for FutureCampaigns, The Huffington Post “Off The Bus“, and MOMocrats. She’s on this list and she is a new contributing writer for The Political Voices of Women.