Josh Silver (nonprofit director)

Josh Silver
Born	April 16, 1968 New York, New York, U.S.
Education	University of Grenoble The Evergreen State College
Occupation	Nonprofit Director
Employer	Represent.Us

Josh Silver (born April 16, 1968) is the founder and director of Represent.Us, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to challenge the influence of money in American Politics. Silver formerly served as CEO and president of Free Press, an "activist group that promotes Internet openness." Silver also served as campaign manager of the successful 1998 "Clean Elections" ballot measure in Arizona. He has published widely on democracy, media, telecommunications, campaign finance and a range of other public policy issues. Silver has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and featured in outlets including the New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com, C-SPAN, and NPR. He speaks nationally on democracy and issues of money in politics, and blogs at The Huffington Post.

Silver was born in New York, NY and grew up in Shelburne, Massachusetts. His mother, Genie Zeiger, an essayist, poet, and creative writing teacher, died in 2009. His father, Carl Silver, is a clinical psychologist in Western Massachusetts. Josh Silver has one sister.

In 1995 Josh Silver was on a river trip in Peru with a friend, Patchen Miller, when they were ambushed and shot; Silver was seriously wounded but survived; Miller did not.

Silver attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and The University of Grenoble, France.

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