October 5, 2008
Politics of Participation - with Robert Stromberg
The second 'active conversation' of the 2nd season of the activefree podcast is with another college friend Robert Stromberg, who I knew as a media activist man of action back during college at Duke and more recently visited in Knoxville, TN during my Free Culture tour in 2005.
Our phone conversation, recorded back July through FreeConference.com (unfortunately the quality of the audio is less than ideal), covers some of his background working with the Barack Obama campaign on the ground in North Carolina, and why he thinks that the approach of the campaign, if successful, may result in more long term participation than previous campaigns.
Photograph "Thinking Obama" thanks to cfrye6395 via Creative Commons Search.
Full bio:
Robert Stromberg is a senior program assistant with NDI's Latin America and Caribbean program where he works on Institute programs in Venezuela as well as the Political Party Network, a regional initiative to strengthen political parties and encourage them to explore more modern, transparent and responsive practices. Before joining NDI in 2008, Robert worked in several states as an organizer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and completed legislative internships with North Carolina State Representative Paul Luebke and U.S. Senator Carl Levin. Earlier, he spent seven years in non-profit management, serving as the marketing manager of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, theater operations manager of the Durham Arts Council, financial coordinator of the Durham Literacy Center, and founder and executive director of the Durham Association for Downtown Arts. He also edited art and design at The Valley Beautiful Beacon, and taught in the North Carolina public school system as part of the Teach for America program.
Robert earned a Master of International Studies from the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University where he focused on immigration and global policy. His capstone paper analyzed media coverage of the Venezuelan government's refusal to renew the broadcast license of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) in 2007. Robert received his BA from Duke University and has pursued the study of Southeast Asian languages and culture at Universität Hamburg in Germany. Robert is a native English speaker, and is fluent in German and Spanish.
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