Alex Steed

My Interests:

Activism. Education. Connectivity.

Favorite Quote:

"I don’t care if people call me a radical, a rebel, a red, a revolutionary, an outsider, an outlaw, a Bolshevik, an anarchist, a nihilist, or even a left conservative, but please don’t ever call me a liberal." - Norman Mailer, 1962

About Me:

At present, I am working in Maine as a field organizer for DFA. We're focusing on keeping the public option in the proposed health care reform bills.

Further, I am a communication consultant for nonprofit organizations and advocacy groups, and I specialize in community management and constituency activation. In mid-2008, I organized, raised funds for for an executed Millennials Changing America, a cross-country research tour that took me to 30 different cities in exploration for how, exactly, Millennials leverage their political power by way of using Internet technologies. I sit on the Steering Committee of the Maine League of Young Voters.

I am also an educator, and will be teaching a class about the history and methodologies of Internet-based activism at the University of Maine Honors Program in January. I am also a volunteer staff member for Maine Youth Leadership, a leadership seminar made available for one high school sophomore from every high school in Maine. In addition to organizing for DFA, at present, I am organizing several extra-curricular media literacy classes, also for high school sophomores.