Wednesday, April 23, 2008
8:30 PM Eastern

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DFA Night School returns just in time for the 2008 elections. This one hour long online training session will be focused on writing your campaign's blueprint for success: Your Field Plan.

Would you like to know exactly how many votes it's going to take to win in November? Where and when to deploy the limited volunteer and financial resources you have so that they make the greatest impact? DFA will be covering all this and much more in this free online training program. Part 1 will focus on setting your vote goals and targeting your voters. Part 2 will focus on the tactics, timelines and benchmarks.

For the last two years, DFA Night School has trained tens of thousands of activists in winning campaign tactics. This April 23rd at 8:30pm EDT Night School is back and better than ever. In addition to the national conference call, Night School attendees will be able to listen to the session live online via Blog Talk Radio. No extra applications are necessary, simply follow the link at the bottom of this page and you'll be able to listen to the show for free online.

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Night School Presenters:

Helen Strain
Helen Strain has been a field organizer for political campaigns for over 20 years. Her experience includes Regional Organizer for Florida House Victory 2000, managing 23 House Campaigns, Program Manager for The Clinton Group, were she managed hundreds of phone programs for Democratic candidates and initiatives from Canada to Argentina and most of the 50 states. She served as the Field Director for Janet Reno's Governor's race, for Dave Aronberg State Senate race (Dave was the only non-incumbent Democrat elected to the Florida Senate in 2002), for Representative Lois Frankel’s WPB Mayor's race and Angela Alioto's Mayors race in San Francisco . She served as Vice-Chair of the Florida Democratic Party and as a member of the Democratic National Committee.

Matt Blizek
Training Director, Democracy for America. A veteran of training in the political and corporate worlds, Matt Blizek began organizing in student and local politics and was elected vice president of the University of Iowa Student Body. Since then he has has done field and fundraising work for numerous campaigns including the DNC, MoveOn.org, Russ Feingold, and Jon Tester. Matt joined Democracy for America in 2007.

Arshad Hasan
Executive Director, Democracy for America; Arshad joined Democracy for America in early 2005 to develop and direct the DFA Training Academy. Before joining DFA, Arshad worked with MoveOn PAC during the 2004 Elections. Previous to his electoral experience, Arshad based his professional political career in environmental issue advocacy and organizing. His non-electoral experience includes work on legislative issue campaigns, corporate accountability campaigns, and grassroots fundraising. Arshad traces his Dean roots to February of 2003 when he founded one of the nation's first organized Dean groups, Philly For Dean. Whenever possible, Arshad likes to take off from DFA and work on campaigns with staffers he’s trained. In the 2006 general election, Arshad worked as the GOTV Director for Jerry McNerney for Congress. Arshad was born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota and went to college at the University of Pennsylvania.