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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.
Veljko Milicevic is the Finance and Administration Manager at the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA). Within CRTA he is responsible for financial management and reporting, administrative management, development of institutional budgets for the organization, and harmonization of donor rules and procedures with the legislative framework of the Republic of Serbia. Veljko worked for several international NGOs in Serbia and Montenegro. He has a broad knowledge of and experience in financial management and implementation of donor rules and procedures (USAID, EU, embassies and foundations). Veljko graduated at the Faculty of Economics and is currently enrolled in Master studies.
Walter Fields is Vice President of Government Relations and Public Affairs for the Community Service Society, responsible for overseeing the agency’s legislative agenda, and determining its political and communications strategy. He rejoined CSS in 2005 after a 14-year absence during which he was the principal of a New Jersey based political consulting firm, Fields Communications, established a nationally recognized black public affairs web site, thenorthstarnetwork.com and served a stint as the Director of Public Affairs for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.
In the past decade Walter has served as a consultant to both Democratic and Republican political campaigns and he has had a distinguished career as a journalist. He has served as a columnist for The Record (Bergen County, NJ), The City News, a contributing editor to The New Jersey Reporter, a monthly political quarterly, and provided commentary over NPR affiliate WBGO-FM in Newark, New Jersey. He was one of the original contributors on the MSNBC cable news channel and contributing columnist to MSNBC.com, and a regular roundtable contributor to the nationally syndicated “News and Notes” on National Public Radio (NPR). Walter has appeared as a guest on CNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” CNN’s “Talk Back Live,” MSNBC’s “Equal Time,” Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” and “Hannity & Colmes,” “America’s Black Forum,” NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” “All Things Considered,” and “The Tavis Smiley Show,” “BET Tonight,” and Court TV’s “Pros & Cons,” among others.
Walter holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science from Morgan State University and an MPA in Public Policy from New York University, where he was a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow and is a recipient of the school’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He also pursued postgraduate study as a National Science Foundation Fellow in Political Science at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Will Carlin is part of the management team now leading VShift, an interactive strategy, marketing and design firm. VShift operates the I Stand For platform, which runs the websites of prominent advocacy groups and democratic campaigns.
Will is an experienced consultant, manager and entrepreneur, active in the New York interactive industry for 15 years. Will is the former Managing Director for OgilvyInteractive where he was responsible for overseeing all of its New York operations. He joined Ogilvy after serving as Managing Partner for the New York office of marchFIRST. Will also co-founded a multimedia company, worked as a financial analyst and, prior to his professional career, was a sixth-grade school teacher.
A communications and process specialist, Will has taught classes at both NYU and Columbia Business School in presentation skills and interactive development processes. He graduated with Honors from Yale, received an MBA with High Honors from Columbia Business School and studied advanced pre-med for two years at Harvard.
Before entering Columbia Business School, Will was a world-ranked squash player on the men’s professional touring circuit, won the U.S. National Championship in squash and was the United States’ #1 ranked player in 1990 and 1995. Will also served on both the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the US Olympic Committee.
Dr. William Greene is founder and president of RightMarch.com, an online conservative organization. He heads up the RightMarch.com PAC as well, which targets federal races where they can support movement conservatives against liberal Republicans and Democrats. Greene is also president of Strategic Internet Campaign Management, Inc. (SICM.com – pronounced “sic ‘em”), an online political consulting firm that enables organizations and candidates to harness the power of the internet for fundraising and grassroots activism; in 2004, Greene’s firm was instrumental in raising nearly half a million dollars online in less than three months for the upstart U.S. Senate candidacy of Dr. Alan Keyes in Illinois, and in 2005, his firm was responsible for raising over a quarter of a million dollars for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation. He was formerly VP Internet Marketing & Development at ConservativeHQ.com Inc., a conservative online activism and fundraising company headed by political direct mail legend Richard A. Viguerie; prior to his work there, he was the director of internet marketing at the Grizzard Agency of Atlanta, a top ten direct marketing agency, as well as internet manager at Jesus Fellowship, Inc., in Miami, which was in the vanguard of internet use for religious nonprofits with sites like Churches dot Net and the Christian Internet Broadcast Network (citv.com).
[2006] Dr. William Greene, whom the Washington Times called a “conservative internet guru,” is founder and president of RightMarch.com, an online conservative organization formed as a “rapid response force” to enable its members to take effective action against activities by online liberal groups like MoveOn.org. RightMarch has been responsible for over three million activist messages sent from conservatives to Congress, the President and other leaders. He heads up the RightMarch.com PAC as well, which targets federal races where they can support staunch movement conservatives against liberal Republicans and Democrats. Greene is also president of Strategic Internet Campaign Management, Inc.; in 2004, SICM was instrumental in raising nearly half a million dollars online in less than three months for the upstart U.S. Senate candidacy of Dr. Alan Keyes in Illinois, and in 2005, SICM was responsible for raising over a quarter of a million dollars for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation. Greene was formerly VP Internet Marketing & Development at ConservativeHQ.com Inc., a conservative online activism and fundraising company headed by political direct mail legend Richard A. Viguerie; prior to his work there, he was the Director of Internet Marketing at The Grizzard Agency of Atlanta, a top ten direct marketing agency, as well as Internet Manager at Jesus Fellowship, Inc., in Miami, which was in the vanguard of Internet use for religious nonprofits with sites like Churches dot Net and the Christian Internet Broadcast Network (citv.com). Initially, Dr. Greene was in academia, teaching political science and international relations at Florida International University (fiu.edu) in Miami for a number of years. Greene has appeared on Bill Moyers’ NOW, NPR’s “Fresh Air” and “Morning Edition,” CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” & “NewsNight with Aaron Brown,” MSNBC Live, the CBS Sunday Morning News, and dozens of local television news and radio talk shows around the country.
Winnie Wong is the founder of Seismologik, an award winning progressive blog and social media feed. As a core organizer of the Occupy Movement, Wong was part of the historic occupation of Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17th. 2011. She is an in-demand digital strategist and has pioneered social media trends during the 2012 election in her work designing the political hot button site, The Message.
In the immediate aftermath of a Hurricane Sandy devastated New York, Winnie helped to get Occupy Sandy off the ground and running. More than 60,000 volunteers were trained and dispatched to the Far Rockaways, New Jersey, and Staten Island to provide what has now become the largest crowd powered disaster relief effort in history.
Winnie’s commitment as a social justice activist is unwavering and she will continue to use the social web as a powerful tool in organizing for change.
