Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 1, 2012

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 8, 2006, 2008

Board Member, ActBlue

Member, Advisory Board, Progressive Ideas Network

Member, Advisory Board, SNAP PAC (Students for a New American Politics Political Action Committee)

Member, Afghanistan Study Group

Board Member, NARAL Pro-Choice America (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)

Chair, Netroots Foundation Board

Board Member, PeacePAC (Political Action Committee), Council for a Livable World

Chief Operating Officer/Chief Creative Officer, Buttonsmith, Incorporated, 2014-present

Chief Executive Officer, TerraHeating, Segregated Portfolio Company, 2012-present

Blogger, OpenLeft.com/DailyKos/Crooks & Liars/Huffington Post

President/Executive Director, ProgressiveCongress.com, 2009-2011

Co-Author, "The Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq", 2008

Group Program Manager, Microsoft, 2000-2004

Senior Sales Engineer, Asymetrix Learning Systems, 1997-2000

Product Manager, Click2Learn.com, 1998-1999

Systems Engineer, CenterLine Software, 1996-1997

Software Engineer, Lotus Development Corporation, 1995-1996

Board Member, Center for International Policy

Father's Occupation:

Served, United States Air Force

Favorite Book:

Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein;
Anything by Neal Stephenson, Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, or Ursula K. LeGuin

Favorite Movie:

Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; The Princess Bride; V for Vendetta; Fargo; Thelma and Louise; Iron-Jawed Angels.

Favorite Musician:

"In the Waiting Line" by Zero 7; Indigo Girls; Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", especially the third movement; Brandi Carlile; "Southern Cross" by Stephen Stills; the soundtrack from "Seussical: The Musical"; all of "Philadelphia Chickens" by Sandra Boynton

Favorite Quote:

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso

"History teaches us that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. The World War II relocation-camp cases... and the Red Scare and McCarthy-era internal subversion cases ... are only the most extreme reminders that when we allow fundamental freedoms to be sacrificed in the name of real or perceived exigency, we invariably come to regret it." - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." - Susan B. Anthony

"The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become." - W.E.B. DuBois

Favorite TV Shows:

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report

Hobbies or Special Talents:

Reading anything I can get my hands on;
Making buttons

Pets (include names):

3 Dogs: Callie, Faith, Tater