Twitter: @andersonatlarge

Website/Blog: http://bit.ly/AndersonatLarge

Bio

A Stanford lawyer-turned-new-media-practitioner, Faye Anderson focuses on the intersection of social media and social change. Faye was recently named one of the top ten race and civil liberties bloggers on Twitter. She was nominated for the 2011 Women’s Media Center Social Media Award. Her blog, Anderson@Large, is included in the Harvard University Web Archive Collection, “Capturing W omen’s Voices.”

Faye is the founder of Tracking Change, a web-based platform to foster participation in the policy making process. She is chief evangelist for the Cost of Freedom Project, a citizen-led initiative that is developing location-based apps to provide voters with information on how to apply for a voter ID.

Faye will demo the Cost of Freedom App today during a panel discussion on social media and voter ID that she organized for Social Media Week Washington, DC. The event will be live-streamed. Viewers can join the conversation via Twitter (#CAPVoterID).

What motivates you to become successful?

Activism is in my DNA so my metric of success is not material possessions. I’m a tree-shaker not a money-maker. I’m motivated by the belief that one person can make a difference. I’ve been involved in a wide range of public policy issues, including minority business inclusion, education and technology, open data, civic engagement and voting rights.

I’m also motivated by personal reinvention. The emerging market for civic apps gives me an opportunity to mash up issues that I’ve worked on over the years and pivot from minority business advocate to minority founder.