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Michael Silberman

Global Director, Mobilisation Lab

Michael Silberman is a senior digital campaigns strategist with more than a decade of experience helping mission-driven organizations scale their impact through the creative use of participatory strategies and new technology. Silberman is recognized as one of the U.S.’s 50 most influential leaders by The NonProfit Times and one of LinkedIn’s "Top Professionals 35 and Under” transforming the social impact sector. Silberman currently serves as Global Director of the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace. The "MobLab" exists to transform how campaigns are fought and won, pioneering a powerful new era of people-powered strategies that amplify campaign impact and create positive change. Silberman and his team work with Greenpeace and its allies in 55 countries to envision, test, and roll out creative new means of communicating, organizing, and fundraising online. He got his start as the National Meetup Director for Governor Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential bid, where he developed one of the first successful online organizing programs in American politics and led a team that regularly mobilized nearly 200,000 volunteers in over 1,200 cities worldwide. Silberman subsequently co-founded Echo & Co, an award-winning digital strategy firm specializing in social impact and online community building. More/follow: http://about.me/michaelsilberman