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Women in Tech: The Activists

By: Fast Company StaffWed Jan 14, 2009 at 1:45 PM
5 organizers who are using technology to change the world.

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-Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm
executive director
Witness

A member of Witness's board of directors since 2005, Alberdingk Thijm joined the nonprofit human-rights video community full time in 2008.

-Dana Bourland
senior director
Enterprise Community Partners' Green Communities

Bourland's carbon-offset fund backs design and construction choices that yield the cleanest, most energy-efficient houses. It raises money for affordable homes and saves the environment in the process.

-Beth Kanter
consultant
BethKanter.org

The master of social-media fund-raising, Kanter (who shares her techniques widely) recently brought in $200,000 for Cambodian orphans using Twitter and other social-media tools.

-Darlene Liebman
cofounder
Howcast Media

In partnership with Facebook, Google, YouTube, and others, Liebman's Howcast teaches people worldwide to use the social Web to organize grassroots political movements.

-Ellen Miller
cofounder and executive director
Sunlight Foundation

Nobody has done more than Miller to use technology to bring transparency to Washington. For three years, her foundation has been churning out Web sites, databases, and online tools that open congressional doings to common folk.


The Executives

The Entrepreneurs

The Gamers

The Evangelists

The Activists


The Bloggers


The Brainiacs
   

Topics:

Innovation, Technology, Leadership, Women in Tech, social media, nonprofit, social enterprise, activists, Human Rights, creativity and innovation, Beth Kanter, women leaders, fund-raising, Dana Bourland, Beth Kanter, Darlene Liebman, Ellen Miller, Yvette Alberdingk

From Issue 132 | February 2009

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