Eli Pariser is the Chairman of the Board of MoveOn.org. Before that, he served as MoveOn’s Executive Director, tripling MoveOn’s member base in the process, demonstrating for the first time that large numbers of small donations could indeed be mobilized through online engagement, and developing many of the practices that are now standard in the field of online organizing.

Pariser has appeared as a commentator on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, the Colbert Report, and almost all of the major cable news channels. His op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post and the LA Times, among others.

He co-founded Avaaz.org, a global organization with 3 million members, is a founding board member of AccessNow.org, and helped launch the New Organizing Institute, which has trained thousands of organizers to bring people together online and o! for political change.

Pariser graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Law, Politics, and Society from Simon’s Rock College.

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