Martin Kearns, Founder/President Martin Kearns has been Co-Founder and Executive Director of Green Media Toolshed (GMT) since May of 2000 and writes one of the leading blogs on network-centric advocacy.

GMT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the environmental movement communicate more effectively by offering a professional suite of communication tools, trainings and services. GMT offers the technology groups need along with the training and support to develop strategies that leverage those tools for the benefit of member organizations and coalitions.

Kearns founded the Netcentric Campaigns division of Green Media Toolshed to bridge his interest in networks and network theory to the progressive advocacy and campaigning space.

Previously, Kearns founded the Georgia River Network, a state based conservation group solely dedicated to the conservation of Georgia's rivers. Kearns also served as Executive Director of the Georgia River Network. He worked for three years for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Kearns has been political fundraiser for candidates for the US House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

Kearns holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science from LeMoyne College and a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from Yale. He spent two years in Kingston, Jamaica as a Jesuit International Volunteer teaching computers at St. George's College and working with inner city youth. He is a runner, hiker and fisherman. He and his wife Maryann are raising their three children in Maryland.

Laurie Moy, Connect US Fellow Laurie is studying International Media and is especially interested in the use of technology to strengthen organizations involved in social change.She has a great deal of experience in using the internet for nonprofits - particularly in the field of online volunteering. In addition to forming and running a small nonprofit of her own, Pearls of Africa, she has spent considerable time coaching organizations around the world on how to use the web for campaign promotion and for mobilizing online volunteers. Laurie is also keenly interested in nonprofit use of web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs and online social networks. She maintains two blogs, www.40Brown.wordpress.com and www.gradmama.wordpress.com.

In addition to her work with nonprofits, she has a very deep interest in international development, foreign policy and social change. With a degree in East Asian Foreign/Defense Policy from Boston University, and work experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Laurie understands the foreign relations realm well.

Tom Glaisyer, Senior Network Consultant Tom Glaisyer is an experienced project manager specializing in organizational change and technology assimilation of social software. Recently, he has focused his expertise on applying social networking thinking and technology to international affairs particularly in the peace and security, and conflict resolution fields.

Tom contributed significantly to the design and rollout of a collaborative site developed in conjunction with a civil society conference on conflict prevention held at the United Nations in summer 2005. More recently, he launched the blog The Morningside Post, at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University where he completed his M.I.A in May 2006. Tom has explored many of these cutting edge ideas in writings.

Tom also brings campaign experience to his work at Netcentric Campaigns. He was a volunteer coordinator for John Edwards in Massachusetts in the 2004 presidential primary, the Media Operations department in the 2004 Democratic Convention, and the Get-Out-The-Vote preparations and activities during the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, the 2002 Senate election race in South Dakota working on the Rosebud Indian reservation, and the 2000 Presidential election in Florida. He has 10 years of experience working as a technology and change management consultant in the private sector where he focused on the implementation of large back office systems and the changes they generated in the workplace.