Virginia Simmons
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Ginny Simmons is currently the Managing Editor for Energy.gov, overseeing online content and interactive programming for the Energy Department.

Previously, Ginny served as the ONE Campaign's Deputy Director of New Media and oversaw ONE.org's U.S. website, online campaigns, social media and online outreach.

In 2005, Ginny created the first blog written by a death row inmate, an online innovation that generated national and international attention to question innocence in the case.

She has also worked at M+R Strategic Services, the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and as a fellow at the D.C. Public Defender Service. Ginny attended Georgetown University where she studied government and anthropology and where she helped create a fictitious type of cheese (xanadu), which still circulates as real throughout the Internet.

Ginny was born in West Germany and was raised in Durham, New Hampshire.

Blog Entries by Virginia Simmons

Could a Small Town in Arizona Become the Solar Capital of the World?

6 Comments | Posted November 16, 2011 | 12:40:41 (EST)

When Rick Buss left his position as city manager of Maricopa, Arizona, to become the town manager of a 2,000-person, economically struggling town called Gila Bend in 2008, some people who know him personally and professionally wondered why.

But with a firm background in both technology companies and...

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President Obama Recommits to the World's Poor in First Address

Posted January 21, 2009 | 13:43:03 (EST)

After hours in the cold watching Barack Obama be sworn in and give his first address as president of the United States, I finally made it indoors and to a computer.

As a ONE member, I know I wasn't the only one thankful and inspired by President Obama's...

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Changing The Game

Posted March 29, 2007 | 18:14:56 (EST)

Last Friday, the ONE Campaign's 2.4 million members, and our many partner organizations, worked together to reverse a $2.2 billion cut to the 2008 international affairs budget. The full 2008 budget process isn't complete yet, but this vote was a critical first step, and an important victory for...

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An Unbelievable Turn of Events for Global Poverty

Posted February 1, 2007 | 14:16:37 (EST)

On January 8, I posted here about Congress' intentions to pass a continuing resolution. The plan would have kept U.S. funding at 2006 levels for all of 2007 and meant that extreme poverty programs would have lost an expected one billion dollar increase.

A few weeks ago, the ONE...

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A Billion Dollars At Stake

Posted January 8, 2007 | 18:12:16 (EST)

In December, Congressional leadership made it clear that they intended to extend the budget "continuing resolution" (CR) for the entire year. This means that U.S. federal funding will remain at 2006 levels for the 2007 fiscal year - and that the global poverty movement will not receive a billion dollars...

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