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Dan Carol

Political strategist and commentator Dan Carol is a leading pioneer, practitioner and evangelist of new generation politics and issues marketing for citizen and youth engagement. Carol's work promoting the politics of change has been featured by author Jack Germond, profiled in The Wall Street Journal and called "inspiring" by Atrios. Most recently, Carol has served as the catalyst and co-founder of The Apollo Alliance (www.apolloalliance.org), a growing strategic effort to promote a "moon mission" national commitment to energy independence and unite Americans of all political stripes in a common purpose. Before that, Carol built the first US Senate website in 1994 and started CTSG, a 70-person high tech service center and model for progressive networking which linked 250 groups and 8 million electronic activists. Carol started the firm after serving as Research Director for the Democratic National Committee during the 1992 presidential cycle, where he directed staff work on the Party's platform and worked in Little Rock on the Clinton debate team.

A former budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office and trend consultant to the Congressional Institute for the Future, Dan has spoken on public affairs to groups such as the JFK School of Public Affairs, The London School of Economics, The Gannett Freedom Forum, Roll Call's Online Politics Conference and the National Democratic Institute in Washington. As a strategic advisor, he has served as a campaign consultant to a number of candidate and communications campaigns, for innovative clients such as MoveOn, SEIU, the NEA, the Institute for America's Future, US Senator Jon Corzine, The Turner Foundation, and the International Labor Organization for their successful, five-year child labor eradication effort. Carol has served as a Visiting Instructor in Politics at the University of Oregon and an advisor to the American Candidate series on Showtime. His writings and commentary have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Alternet, Salon, Boston Review, C-Span and on CNN's Paula Zahn Now. Carol currently serves on the board of Progressive Majority, Groundspring/Tides, Pop and Politics , Common Assets and the Apollo Alliance projects. Connect to Carol's writings on politics and trends at: www.kumbayadammit.com.

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