Pinky Weitzman has been at the American Civil Liberties Union since 2012. She’s led the digital department since 2017, overseeing email, SMS, online advocacy, social media, web production, multimedia, graphic design, brand marketing, paid media, and the online store. She helped direct the multi-fold growth of ACLU’s digital reach and online advocacy in the Trump era: the nationwide email list is now 4 million strong and the social media audience totals over 4.4 million followers.
Pinky served as the Iowa Digital Director for the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, and is also a multi-instrumentalist and singer in a variety of indie rock bands, most recently touring internationally with The Magnetic Fields. In prior roles, she served as the General Manager at the School of Rock in New York City and ran software development teams at a technology company in San Francisco.
The New Technologies of Politics
In the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, every politician, party, and activist group realized that tech could be an even more powerful tool for suasion. What are the latest tools for online organizing and how will they change the presidential election? The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of […]
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NYC 19
The world is in sad shape, which means, among other challenging realities, that all of us need to ensure our work contributes to larger solutions. Tech changes everything, which we love, but it can’t just be a way to make more money.
