Please join me in welcoming Stephanie Taylor to our Change Congress team. Stephanie's primary role will be to build the Change Congress netroots community and manage our online web presence.

She comes to Change Congress with many years of experience as an activist and organizer. She started as a field organizer for a number of years for SEIU 1199 in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, helping nurses and other health-care workers form unions and negotiate contracts. Later, she began working as an online organizing for the AFL-CIO, the DNC, MoveOn and most recently at SEIU, where she designed and implemented the first New Media Department in the history of the union.

Stephanie believes the Internet is making us a more democratic society, by shifting power away from moneyed elites into the hands of ordinary citizens. She feels that Change Congress is an important part of that movement, and is happy to be offering her skills towards its success.

Stephanie will be based in Washington, DC working closely with our Political Director Japhet Els and the rest of our Change Congress team based in San Francisco. No doubt, you will be hearing from Stephanie in the coming months -- we have plans to launch more campaigns designed to shine light on government corruption and put an end to the distorted ways Congress uses and views money.