Anchor Team

Web of Change is largely run by volunteer team of Anchors. They take collaboration to the next level using a distributed leadership model. Here is the 2011 Team. 

2011 Anchor Team

Michael Silberman, Chair

Michael Silberman is the Global Director of Digital Innovation at Greenpeace. He leads a digital mobilization lab that works with Greenpeace and its allies in 42 countries to envision, test, and roll out creative new means of communicating, organizing, and fundraising online. A senior online campaigns strategist, Silberman specializes in online organizing and grassroots citizen engagement. He is a frequent writer and speaker on the effective use of technology for converting online activity into real-world action.

Silberman is a co-founder of EchoDitto, a digital agency that empowers leading organizations to have a greater impact through the creative use of new technologies. As a Partner at EchoDitto, Silberman lead a team that designed participatory campaigns and built award-winning tools for clients to enable individuals to make the world a better place. Clients included the UN World Food Program (WFP), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).

Silberman cut his teeth on digital organizing and campaigning as the National Meetup Director for Howard Dean’s presidential run in 2004, where he lead an online organizing team that regularly mobilized more than 189,000 local volunteers in over 1,200 cities worldwide. He also served as the 1Sky climate campaign's Internet Director during its first year, where he implemented a successful nationwide internet organizing, communications, and fundraising strategy.

Michael currently serves on the board of Planet Forward and Brighter Planet and is affiliated with the New Organizing Institute and The Engage Network. Silberman graduated on skis with a B.A. from Middlebury College.

Sam Dorman, Agenda Anchor

Sam Dorman is one of the social change sector's go-to leaders helping organizations execute strategic, high-value technology projects.  Sam brings a track record of innovative projects with groups such as Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), UNAIDS, and the League of Young Voters, along with strong relationships across a range of networks.   After years in the nonprofit trenches at both a staff and executive level, Sam focuses on solutions with wide internal adoption and deep external impact.

Shayna Englin, Communications Anchor

Shayna Englin brings more than a decade of experience and a commitment to winning to her work for progressive causes, organizations and candidates.  Shayna and her team at Englin Consulting do policy and political communications campaigns that win by moving people to action.

From her roots in Colorado as an organizer for Colorado NARAL, to her role as Fundraising Practice Manager at Mindshare Interactive Campaigns (now Verilion), to her leadership as Program and Political Director at the Women’s Campaign Forum, Shayna has been on the cutting edge in producing innovative and effective plans, programs, and materials that yield results: dollars raised, votes won, and policy changed.

Shayna earned a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and teaches graduate classes in strategy and communications at Georgetown University.

Nicholas Klassen, Design Anchor

Nicholas Klassen is co-founder of Biro Creative, a pioneering online creative firm that advises movement-leading organizations from around the world working for sustainability and social change.

In this role, Nicholas has led projects with clients such as 350.org, Greenpeace UK, Brighter Planet and Global Zero. He holds an MA in History from the University of Toronto, and is a former Senior Editor at Adbusters Media Foundation.

Jason Mogus, Founder/Institutional Anchor

Jason Mogus is the founder of Web of Change and his company has organized and financially back-ended the conference and its main spin-off events for 10 years.

Jason is the CEO of Communicopia, a digital agency in Vancouver that produces breakthrough digital experiences, campaigns, and communities by introducing "web values" to social change institutions. He has led digital transformation projects for the TckTckTck global climate change campaign, The Elders, BC Hydro, Make Poverty History, Greenpeace, UNICEF Canada, and the United Nations Foundation. He is a recognized leader in the fields of social innovation, open campaigns, and organizational change through technology.

Read more about Jason at Communicopia Internet.
 

Tim Walker, Fellows Anchor

Tim Walker is co-founder of Biro, a pioneering online creative firm that advises movement-leading organizations from around the world working for sustainability and social change. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in field, Tim provides strategic council for the company's select tribe of long-term clients – including Greenpeace UK, Avaaz, 350.org, Global Zero and Avaaz – helping them grow their movements online.

Previously he worked as Communications Director at the Adbusters Media Foundation. He has a Masters degree in Globalization Studies from York University.

Julia Watson, Operations Anchor

Julia Watson is Director of Operations and office empath at Communicopia Internet. As the former Program Director at Hollyhock she scheduled approximately 100 programs and conferences each year, including Communicopia's Web of Change. Though Julia went to a main stream University, it is her permaculture design certificate from Linnaea Farm that has most influenced her approach to life and work. When not at Communicopia, Julia is either teaching meditation or at the Lightwork Ecovillage on Gambier Island helping to create a sustainable future.