Jacqueline Salit is a 20-year veteran of the independent political movement. Executive Editor of The Neo-Independent magazine, Salit is also the President of the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, a think tank and strategy center for independent voters and activists. Salit ran Mayor Mike Bloomberg's successful 2001 and 2005 NYC mayoral campaigns on the Independence Party line, shaping a game-changing black and independent alliance that scaled up to support Barack Obama's presidential campaign.