User Profile for James Rucker (jrucker)

Bio: James Rucker is the executive director of ColorOfChange.org, an online citizens' lobby of over 500,000 dedicated to amplifying the political voice of Black America. He also serves as co-director of the Citizen Engagement Laboratory (CEL), an incubator for new online organizing projects based on the model of ColorOfChange, largely focused on empowering currently underserved identity and issue based communities.

Prior to ColorOfChange, James served as Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org, where he played a lead role in technology and organizing strategy. He is also co-founder of Secretary of State Project (www.secstateproject.org), an effort to elect progressive Secretaries of State at the state level, and Video the Vote (videothevote.org), a citizen-journalism project that enables everyday people to serve as the eyes and ears for the public on Election Day.

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