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Zephyr Teachout

Professor of Law

Fordham University

Zephyr R. Teachout is an Associate Law Professor at Fordham. She is the former Director of Online Organizing for Howard Dean’s Campaign, National Director of the Sunlight Foundation, and Co-Founding Executive Director of the Fair Trial Initiative. Her research about corruption has been cited by the United States Supreme Court and the Montana Supreme Court. She is an internationally recognized expert on the impact of the Internet on electoral politics and government, and has appeared on Bill Moyers, PBS News Hour, and UP with Chris Hayes. Her innovative internet organizing efforts were featured on NPR and CNN, and in The Washington Examiner, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, PC World, and The New York Times. She serves on the Board of the Public Campaign Action Fund and Fight for the Future.
[2006] Zephyr Teachout is a teacher, activist, and internet consultant to new media organizations. In the past year she has worked with Current TV and the War Tapes, two nonpartisan projects engaged in enabling citizen-created video. She was the Director of Online Organizing for the Dean campaign, and headed up Baobabs Citizen Labs, which experimented in using open source software for on-the-ground college organizing in the 04 Presidential Election. Before she got interested in the power of technology (through the Dean campaign), she was a luddite death penalty defense lawyer in North Carolina, where she ran the Fair Trial Initiative. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Vermont.

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