Micah Sifry

Micah Sifry is a freelance writer who contributes frequently to magazines like The New Republic, The Nation and The American Prospect; and the publisher of a new newsletter, The Connector. He has been a member of Consumer Reports’ Board of Directors since 2010. Mr. Sifry was the Co-Founder and President of Civic Hall from 2015 to 2020, and curator of the annual Personal Democracy Forum from 2004 to 2019. From 2006-16 he was a senior adviser to the Sunlight Foundation, which he helped found, and currently serves on the board of the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science. He is the author or editor of nine books, most recently "Civic Tech in the Global South" (co-edited with Tiago Peixoto) (World Bank, 2017); "A Lever and a Place to Stand: How Civic Tech Can Move the World" (PDM Books, 2015), with Jessica McKenzie; "The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet)" (OR Books, 2014); and "Wikileaks and the Age of the Transparency" (OR Books, 2011). In 2012 he taught “The Politics of the Internet” as a visiting lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School. From 1997-2006, he worked closely with Public Campaign, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization focused on comprehensive campaign finance reform, as its senior analyst. Prior to that, Micah was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years. He is the author of "Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America" (Routledge, 2002), co-author with Nancy Watzman of "Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day" (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), co-editor of "Rebooting America," and co-editor of "The Iraq War Reader" (Touchstone, 2003) and "The Gulf War Reader" (Times Books, 1991).