Micah L. Sifry

Micah L. Sifry is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Since 2004, he has been co-founder, editor and curator of the Personal Democracy Forum (PdF), a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics. He is also the editor of TechPresident.com, PdF’s award-winning blog on how politicians are using the web and how the web is using them. TechPresident received the 2007 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism. Sifry also speaks and writes widely on the topics of technology, politics and transparency and consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. Sifry has been a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation since its founding in 2006. He also joined the board of directors of Consumers Union in October 2010. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency. He is the former associate editor of The Nation magazine. Sifry graduated from Princeton University with a BA in politics in 1983 and received an MA in politics from New York University in 1989. He will be teaching “The Politics of the Internet” at the Kennedy School.