- Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, …
- Peter Walsh
Peter Walsh (born 1956) is an Australian-born professional organizer who resides in Los Angeles. He has been an organizational consultant for the past 12 years. His clients have included numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as private individuals. Walsh holds a master's degree with a specialty in educational psychology and has been president and CEO of an international training and development company. Walsh was an organizer on the TLC program "Clean Sweep".
- Chris Messina
Chris Messina (born January 7, 1981 in USA), aka FactoryJoe, currently residing in San Francisco, is co-founder of Citizen Agency. Chris is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp movement and Microformats. Recently he co-founded The Citizen Agency, a company which describes itself as " Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, …
- Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she linked with rape and other forms of violence against women. An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin became a radical feminist after escaping an abusive marriage in the Netherlands, and went on to publish ten books on radical feminist theory and practice.
- Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema is best known for the software TCP Wrapper , which is still widely used today and is included with almost all unix systems. Wietse is also the author of the Postfix mail system and the co-author of the very cool suite of utilities called The Coroner's Toolkit or "TCT". He is currently working at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and he has gratiously agreed to allow us to catch up with him and and see what he's been up to lately.
- Vern Paxson
Vern Paxson is a senior scientist with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Center for Internet Research, a non-profit research institute located in Berkeley, California. He is also a staff computer scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where his research focuses on network intrusion detection systems (NIDS), Internet attacks, and Internet measurement.
- Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of State and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" (1992-1993) and actual Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- Mohammed Haydar Zammar
Mohammed Haydar Zammar is a Muslim jihadist who served as an important al-Qaida recruiter. He claims to have recruited many of the organizers of the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is detained in Far'Falastin.
- Theodore Ts'O
Theodore Y. "Ted" Ts'o (born 1968) is a software developer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in Computing science. After graduation he worked in the "Information Systems & Technology" (IS&T) department at MIT until 1999, where among other things he was project leader of the Kerberos V5 team. After IS&T he went to work for VA Linux Systems for two years.
- Steven M. Bellovin
Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security. He is currently a Professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia University, having previously been a long time employee at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, New Jersey. As a graduate student, Bellovin was one of the originators of USENET. He later suggested that Gene Spafford should create the Phage mailing list as a response to the Morris Worm.
- Margo Seltzer
Margo Seltzer is a researcher in the area of computer systems. Currently she is a full professor (Harvard College Professor) at Harvard University. Dr. Seltzer is a member of the Systems Research Group at Harvard. Dr. Seltzer got her PhD. in 1992 from Berkeley, advised by Michael Stonebraker. Her dissertation was ‘‘File System Performance and Transaction Support.’’ Her most widely known work includes work in log structured file systems, databases, …
- Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-)
- Massimiliano Mauriello
In the last ten years of job experience developed a professional path focused on accounting/administrative roles, having been in charge of roles such as accountant, administrative, controller, mainly in multinational companies and taking part at some important projects.
- Stan Relihan
President & CEO of Expert Executive Search - one of Asia Pacific's best-connected Search, Selection & Recruitment Firms. Also a leading international Headhunter, Neural Networker & Technology Enthusiast; Keynote Speaker; Internet & Web 2.0 Subject Matter Expert; Top 30 LinkedIn 'Power User'.Host of TPN :: The Connections Show, an audio podcast series that puts you ahead of the curve with the latest developments in Social & Business Networking. http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com
- Peter Flach
Pieter Adriaan Flach(born April 8,1961) is a Dutch computer scientist. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of Data mining and Machine learning. He is presently Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science,University of Bristol,UK.
- Christopher Wangro
Christopher Wangro (born January 17, 1958) is a Producer and Impresario.
- Ben Kamprath
Building better experiences through engaging design. We make it curve with style...
- Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is Founding Director of Global Exchange. For over twenty years, Medea has supported human rights and social justice struggles around the world. Medea is a leading activist in the peace movement and helped bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace and Justice (see www.unitedforpeace.org ). She is also the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a women's group that has been organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq.
- An de Jonghe
Headhunter for the ICT market with a business approach. (3600+ connections) Ceo of TrendQ.eu Organizer of ThinkTomorrow.eu Author of "Social Networks Around The World: How is Web 2.0 Changing Your Daily Life?"
- Gilbert Herdt
Gilbert Herdt (born February 24, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist who specializes in sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. His studies of the 'Sambia' people -- a pseudonym he created -- of Papua New Guinea analyzes how culture and society create sexual meanings and practices. In the United States, Herdt has also studied adolescents and their families, the emergence of HIV and gay culture, and the role that social policy plays in sexual health.
- Charles Nesson
Charles Nesson is William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A member of the Law School's faculty since 1966, Charles founded and directs the Berkman Center for Internet & Society , which explores the frontiers of intellectual property law in the digital age. His blog is eon .
- Kim Gandy
Kim Gandy is serving her second term as president of the National Organization for Women, elected by the group's grassroots members in 2001 and again in 2005. She has served as a national officer of NOW since 1987 and in state, local and regional leadership positions since 1973. Gandy also is president of the NOW Foundation , chair of NOW's Political Action Committees , and serves as the principal spokesperson for all three entities.
- Judi Bari
Judi Bari (November 7, 1949 - March 2, 1997) was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First! campaigns against logging in the ancient redwood forests of Northern California as well as efforts through Industrial Workers of the World Local 1 to bring timber workers and environmentalists together in common cause.
- Ryan Junell
Born in Frankfurt, Germany during wartime, Junell moved with family to deep West Texas and lived between rural and urban environments throughout his youth. He matriculated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Plan 2 Honors Degree. Ryan currently splits time between New York and the Bay Area.
- Volker Berghahn
Professor Berghahn has laboured long among Stone's papers and in the archives of the Ford Foundation. His careful research is not always matched by an adequate apparatus of footnotes and references however. Among others, many participants in CCF committees are mentioned in the text but not referenced in the index.
- Gerald Schatten
Dr. Gerald Schatten is a Professor and Vice Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Deputy Director at Magee-Womens Research Institute and Director of the Pittsburgh Development Center. He also has appointments in Cell Biology, Physiology and serves as Director of the Division of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
- Robert C. de Large
Robert Carlos De Large (1842-1874) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina. He was born in Aiken, S.C. on March 15, 1842. He received such an education as was then attainable and was graduated from Wood High School, after which he became a farmer. He was a delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention in 1868, and then a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1868 until 1870.
- Maurice Obstfeld
- Wayne Cook
Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created to fulfill the creative vision of the artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism and commercial photography. Photojournalism provides visual support for stories, mainly in the print media. Commercial photography's main focus is to sell a product or service. Fine art photography is created primarily as an expression of the artist's vision, but has also been important in advancing certain causes.
- Philippe Gluckman
PHILIPPE GLUCKMAN (Visual Effects Supervisor) most recently served as the visual effects supervisor on the hit jungle comedy "Madagascar." He previously served as co-visual effects supervisor on "Shrek 2" and as a sequence supervisor on the original "Shrek." He also served as associate visual effects supervisor on PDI/DreamWorks' first computer-animated feature, "Antz."
- Lynda Dodd
- Sonia The Organizer
LiKeS: God,live music, potlucks, things in the color of black, frames, good people, a cold beer while listening to live music, vans, ladies night out, open mindeness, classic rock, etc, etc. DiSlIkEs: cherry or mint flavored stuffs.
- John Delloro
Executive Director/ Faculty of the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute, Los Angeles Community College District (LA City, East LA, West LA, Trade Tech, Mission, Valley, Pierce, Harbor, Southwest)
- Mark Schauer
Senator Mark Schauer (D- Battle Creek, Senate Democratic Leader) has much the same view, saying, "The violence in the Darfur region of Sudan has gone on for several years, but without proper funding this horrible situation would decrease and hopefully be extinguished. For this reason, I support Senate Bill 0555 which would keep state funds in the retirement investments of state employees away from businesses with interests in Sudan."
- David Clohessy
For the last 14 years, David Clohessy has served as the national director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the nation's largest and oldest self-help group for clergy molestation victims. In that role, he has traveled and spoken extensively, helping to set up local support groups in more than 50 cities. Clohessy was one of only four survivors to address all of America's Catholic Bishops at their historic meeting in Dallas in 2002.
- Eamonn Keogh
- Zack Exley
You can browse through and read entries from Zack's complete historical blog archives here , as his archive continues to grow. Zack Exley is a strategic consultant with ThoughtWorks, Inc. , where he advises organizations on communications, organizing and technology. He is also a co-founder and president of the New Organizing Institute .
- Aaron Dixon
Aaron Dixon (born January 2, 1949) is an American activist and former captain of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. In 2006, he ran for the United States Senate in Washington state on the Green Party ticket.
- Wade Rathke
Wade Rathke is the founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN and SEIU Local 100. He began his career as an organizer for the NWRO (National Welfare Rights Organization) in Springfield, Massachusetts. After working with the NWRO, he left for Little Rock, Arkansas, to found a new organizing effort designed to unite poor and working class families around a common agenda.
- Tom Hayden
Thomas Emmett "Tom" Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He is the father of American actor Troy Garity.