Join students and faculty for a presentation by Micah L. Sifry, who is a co-founder and executive editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, and cofounder of techPresident.com which covers the ways technology is changing politics.  Sifry is also senior analyst with Public Campaign, a non-profit, non-partisan organization working on comprehensive campaign finance reform. Prior to joining Public Campaign in 1997, Sifry was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years. He is the author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America (Routledge, 2002) and co-edited The Iraq War Reader (Touchstone, 2003) and The Gulf War Reader (Times Books, 1991).  His latest book, Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), co-authored with Nancy Watzman, discusses how money in politics affects people in their everyday lives.  He is an adjunct professor at the Political Science Department, City University of New York/Graduate Center, where he teaches a course called "Writing Politics."   This event is part of Dean Wilson’s Digital Initiative.



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