I’m online campaign manager for Free Press, the national media reform nonprofit. For many years I’ve explored the intersections of technology, politics and activism as a writer and web strategist. I was a frequent commentator on the use of the web in the 2008 election via my previous job as associate editor of techPresident and Personal Democracy Forum. I was also managing editor of Change.org during the launch of its blog network. My analysis has been covered in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Salon, NPR, ABC News, AOL Politics, and XM Radio, among others.
In 2007 I received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, City University of New York. My creative projects there included A Better World in Second Life?, a machinima documentary about political activism in Second Life, and The Bronx Blog Project, a video and web project that examines the intersections of technology, immigration, and community by documenting immigrants in the Bronx as they learned how to blog.
You can find other examples of my work as a naive and idealistic graduate student here.
I live in Northampton, MA with my wife and son.
- Josh Levy
