Mission

The Internet is constantly evolving, and its role in politics and advocacy increases every day. In order for candidates and causes to get their messages and ideas communicated, adapting to technologies of the future is essential. PublicEdge provides innovative means for promoting what's most important to your organization, while keeping a constant eye on the horizon.

By merging our expertise with your mission, we can create the best overall solution and achieve your goals online. Our rates are reasonable and our philosophy entails considering each organization's needs on an individual basis in order to provide the best solution.

Team

Managing Director, Sarah Granger, has over twenty years of experience in high-tech, new media and online communications. Before founding PublicEdge (formerly FutureCampaigns), Sarah directed the launch of what Wired News and political analysts called the “first true weblog to be put up by a politician,” while directing Internet strategy for Senator Hart's 2004 U.S. presidential exploratory organization. During that endeavor, Sarah built the entire online organization including web, database, IT, security, email, content, blog and netroots teams, and she helped make the Gary Hart News Blog one of the most popular blogs in the world.

Online since the introduction of the Apple II+, Sarah gained a keen interest in technology's social applications at a young age. She studied technology ethics and policy at the University of Michigan and designed her own major in "Technology and Society". She then developed her technology skills as a system administrator, programmer and project manager for companies like Phoenix Technologies, Symantec, Liquid Audio, CMP Media, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and she played a lead role in three high-tech startups. Finally, her passion for utilizing information technology for social change brought her to working with nonprofit, political and new media organizations to develop content and strategies.

Since then, Sarah has worked with several national and international nonprofit organizations, local, statewide and national candidates, start-up, small and medium sized corporations and government entities. (See client list.) She has advised staff at various levels for three presidential cycles now, and she is widely regarded as a national expert on using the Internet and new media in politics and government, including winning the New Media Award from the California Democratic Party in 2009.

She is an active member of U.S. Public Policy Committee for the Association for Computing Machinery, and she served as a delegate to the World Summit on the Information Society at the U.N. in 2003. Sarah completed the Emerge California women's leadership program in 2005, she is a former member of the City of Menlo Park Environmental Quality Commission, and she currently serves as one of two representatives from the Junior League of Palo Alto/Mid-Peninsula to the California State Public Affairs Committee. She is also on the advisory committee for Netroots Nation, the premier conference for progressive online activists.

Her writing covers a wide range of topics related to technology and new media, and some of her articles are required reading globally in courses at universities and in IT organizations, reprinted in multiple languages. Her articles have been published in Personal Democracy Forum and techPresident, IEEE Spectrum magazine, The Huffington Post, The Politicus, Security Focus, MOMocrats, BlogHer, the Political Voices of Women, and the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, where she live blogged historic meetings with Elizabeth Edwards in 2006-2007. Sarah has edited three books, several nonprofit web sites, email campaigns, online columns, newsletters and multiple blogs.

A speaker on topics related to technology in politics and government as well as their use for women's organizations and women candidates, Sarah was a panelist at the Democratic National Convention at the Big Tent. She has been a speaker South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, Ethics in the Computer Age, Fem 2.0, and U.S. Policies for the Information Age. She is also on the Advisory Committee for Netroots Nation, the progressive forum for online political activists and bloggers.

Featured as an expert in information technology and society, Sarah has been quoted as an expert in print, TV, radio and online including the Washington Post, ABC News, Daily KOS, San Jose Mercury News, Good Morning America, CBS News, PBS.org, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times. She was also a featured leader at voterunlead.org and change.org.

Partners

FutureCampaigns works with an incredible collection of partner individuals and organizations.

Contact

Contact: info(at)publicedge(dot)com.

"Sarah showed herself as a visionary in orchestrating ground-breaking web activities for a political campaign. She was doing things in 2004 that most campaigns have only fully embraced and executed on four years later."