MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jason Shevrin: [email protected], 202-994-5631
Emily Grebenstein: [email protected], 202-994-3087
EVENT:
Campaign operatives and political activists will join staff from major social media and technology companies at the George Washington University to discuss the ways in which social media impacts politics. Panelists at the event, hosted by GW’s Graduate School of Political Management, will discuss how Twitter affected the 2016 campaign and how future candidates and issue advocates will use the platform to win in the future.
WHO:
Panel I: The Last War. How was Twitter used during the 2016 presidential campaign?
- Gary Coby, director of advertising, Republican National Committee
- Hector Sigala, former social media director, Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign
- Michael Cornfield, associate professor and PEORIA Project research director, GW Graduate School of Political Management
- Ginny Badanes, Republican adviser, Microsoft Campaign Technology and Services team
- Peter Daou, former adviser to Hillary Clinton
- Matthias Reynolds, senior product specialist, Zignal Labs
Panel II: The Next Wars: The next campaigns will be adapting newer iterations of short-form messaging to different political circumstances. How is that taking shape?
- Adam Sharp, former head of news, government and elections, Twitter
- Ximena Hartsock, founder, Phone2Action
- Alan Rosenblatt, director of digital research, Lake Research Partners
- Patrick Ruffini, co-founder, Echelon Insights; former campaign strategist for the 2004 Bush presidential campaign and former director of digital strategy for the Republican National Committee
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 5, 2017; 2-5:30 p.m.
WHERE:
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
George Hewitt Myers Room
701 21st St., NW
Washington, D.C.
Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro (Orange, Blue and Silver lines)
RSVP:
Media interested in attending must contact Jason Shevrin at [email protected] or 202-994-5631.
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