MoveOn.org Staff:
Joan Blades is co-founder of MoveOn.org, a Board member and volunteer for the organization, to which she brings her expertise in consumer marketing and mediation. Joan is a software industry veteran, having co-founded Berkeley Systems. Ms. Blades served on the Berkeley Systems board and as the Vice President of Marketing. Prior to her work in consumer software, Ms. Blades taught mediation at Golden Gate Law School, and practiced mediation. She wrote Mediate Your Divorce, published by Prentice Hall, and co-authored The Divorce Book, published by New Harbinger Publications. She is a past member of the California and Alaska bar associations. Ms. Blades is also an artist, with works published on both greeting cards and software packaging.
Wes Boyd is co-founder and President of MoveOn.org, and also a Board member and full-time volunteer for the organization, to which he brings his considerable expertise in both technical design and implementation and consumer marketing. Prior to founding MoveOn.org, Wes and his wife Joan Blades co-founded Berkeley Systems, a leading entertainment software company, best known for Flying Toaster screen savers, and You Don't Know Jack, an online game show. Mr. Boyd served as Berkeley Systems' Chief Executive Officer, growing the company to 150 employees and $30 million in sales. Prior to his work in consumer software, Mr. Boyd authored software for blind and visually impaired users allowing full access to computers with a graphical user interface. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Boyd served at the University of California as a senior staff programmer on research projects.
Carrie Olson, Chief Operating Officer of MoveOn.org, played an integral part in the early formation of MoveOn.org in fall of 1998, and has since made use of her 25 years of experience in operations management to ensure that the day to day mechanics of the organization run smoothly. She brings with her many years of grassroots activist experience, and has boundless enthusiasm for MoveOn.org’s capability to organize people for good causes via the internet. Prior to her work with MoveOn.org, Carrie was Director of Internal Operations for Berkeley Systems, a successful internet and software development company.
Peter Schurman is Executive Director and a Board member of MoveOn.org. He previously founded Generation Net, an internet-based advocacy organization for young people. Peter has ten years of experience in the nonprofit, public policy, environment, education, and government fields, as a grassroots- and media-organizer, fundraiser, organizational developer, and manager. He has worked on environmental issues for organizations including the Sierra Club and the American Lung Association, on youth organizing with Lead… or Leave, and on Capitol Hill for Congressman Gary Ackerman. He believes deeply in broadening the inclusiveness of democratic decision-making through the many-to-many capacity of the Internet. He completed an MBA at Yale in 2000, concentrating in leadership and nonprofit management, and won the Social Entrepreneurship Prize in a business plan competition there. Peter also holds a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up mostly in Portland, Maine.
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