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The Personal Democracy Forum was a conference that ran for over 15 years and took place in NYC, Europe and Central America.
Kaliya Hamlin works developing social media strategy and blogging for a variety of clients ranging from Broadway musicals to enterprise software companies. Her own blogging has focused on the emergence of persistent digital identity systems at IdentityWoman.net. She serves in a networking role for several organizations at the intersection of information technology and civil society: Planetwork, Identity Commons and Integrative Activism. She is an associate of the Co-Intelligence Institute and regularly volunteers her networking skill for the Interra Project. Kaliya was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada and came to the United States in 1995 to play varsity water polo and study Political Economy, Human Rights, Demography and Environmental Science Policy Management at UC Berkeley. She currently lives with her husband in Oakland, California.
Kassia DeVorsey is a data and analytics consultant based in Washington and San Francisco. She works with US and international political, nonprofit, and corporate organizations, helping develop clear and practical solutions to real world data challenges. Kass holds a physics degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an alum of BlueLabs, Obama for America, and the Democratic National Committee.
Katarzyna Batko-Tołuć is actively involved in increasing transparency within public life, accountability in governance, and in enforcing the idea of civic oversight.
She works through the Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups – a unique nation-wide organization formed by several local grassroots initiatives, which focuses on making citizens aware of their rights to be informed, to influence the decision-making processes, and to make authorities accountable. This organization also works as a Freedom of Information watchdog addressing all levels of governance, while serving as a support hub for all watchdog initiatives in Poland.
Katarzyna also analyzes the impact of advocacy efforts on the sustainability of civic initiatives and on the ethical standards of Polish public life. In 2009, she was recognized by Ashoka, an international community of innovators in the public sphere; in 2010, she was named a Rising Talent by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society; and in 2011, she was recognized with an award from the Polish President.
Katarzyna Szymielewicz is a lawyer and activist. She’s a graduate of the University of Warsaw’s Law & Administration Department, and the University of London’s Development Studies program in the School of Oriental and African Studies.
She’s Co-founder and President of the Panoptykon Foundation, that deals with human rights protection in the context of new technology development. She’s also Vice-President of European Digital Rights, a coalition of over 30 organisations.
Katarzyna serves as an advisor to the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative and to the Minister for Administration and Digitalisation in Poland. She is also a member of the International Commission of Jurists (Polish section) and the Internet Society.
Kate Kaye is a freelance writer who has been covering online advertising for various trade publications for over six years. Her work has been published in Advertising Age, Business 2.0, AdAge’s Creativity, MediaPost’s OnlineMediaDaily, Media and OMMA magazines, and others. From 2001-2004, Kate served as editor-in-chief of Emerging Interest, an online resource for emerging marketing technologies. Since 2000, Kate has written and published her irreverent online commentary column, The Lowbrow Lowdown (www.LowbrowLowdown.com), aiming to analyze the effects of marketing and advertising on culture, society and our daily lives. Most recently, Kate wrote and designed a self-published punk rock-themed cookie cookbook entitled, The Punk Rock Kitchen Presents Cookie Chaos!
Katherine is the Chief Communications Officer for the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, the largest free knowledge project in human history and one of the world’s most popular websites. She is an expert on the intersection of technology, human rights, democracy, and international development.
Prior to joining Wikimedia, Katherine was Advocacy Director for the international digital rights organization Access. She has worked with the World Bank, National Democratic Institute, and UNICEF on technology and programmatic innovation, and has extensive programmatic and policy experience in the United States, Europe, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean, Central America, and South East Asia.
Katherine is a member of the Advisory Council at the Open Technology Fund, and the board of the Youth for Technology Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving youth access to technology in the developing world. She is on the board of the London-based Project for the 21st Century (PS21), and a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the International Communication Association. She is the author or co-author of 16 books including: Presidents Creating the Presidency (University of Chicago Press, 2008), Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford, 2008) and unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007). Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Jamieson wrote The Obama Victory(Oxford, 2010), winner of an American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in government and politics and the ICA outstanding book award. Jamieson has won university-wide teaching awards at each of the three universities at which she has taught and political science or communication awards for five of her books. She is founder of the new political literacy site, www.FlackCheck.org, which uses parody and humor to debunk false political advertising, poke fun at extreme language, and hold the media accountable for their reporting on political campaigns.
Kathy Mitchell is the research coordinator for Consumer Union’s Southwest Regional Office and helps manage e-activism for Consumers Union. She serves on a state advisory committee overseeing access to records under the state’s Public Information Act, and assists many local and state groups with government records access. Formerly a senior health policy analyst specializing in health insurance research for a Texas state agency, she has a B.A. and M.A from the University of Texas at Austin. Active in the community, she serves on the board of the ACLU of Texas and chairs the state legislative committee. She is a member of the board of the nonprofit environmental organization Public Research Works in Austin.
Katie grew up in San Diego, CA where she experienced the unique gifts and challenges of living in a border city. She attended Yale University, where she graduated with distinction in her major, Ethnicity, Race and Migration. Upon graduating, she returned to California where she served for two years as the Northern California Organizing Director for FWD.us, leading engagement with Members of Congress, building a supporter base, and working with technology companies and the press to highlight the need for immigration reform. She now lives and works in D.C. as the Grassroots Communications Manager for FWD.us, where she co-runs FWD.us’ national media surrogate program, which has trained more than 200 individuals directly impacted by immigration over the last year on tactics for engaging with the press. She also manages and InformedImmigrant.com, an online immigration resource hub for the undocumented community.
Katie’s grandparents migrated to the U.S. from Mexico and her family worked as seasonal agricultural laborers before settling in Calexico, a small border town. Her grandparents came at a very different time in U.S. immigration policy, and her family was able to benefit from pathways that are now much less available. She works on immigration policy to pay this opportunity forward to immigrant families present and future.
Katie Dowd es la Director de Nuevos Medios del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos
