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Michael Connery

Michael Connery is a blogger and activist, and author of the recently published book Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority. He got his political start in 2003, when he was the cofounder and Communications Director of Music for America, an organization that registered young voters at over 4,000 concerts. Currently he is a board member of the Young Voter PAC, an At-Large member of the DNC Youth Council, and sits on the Advisory Board of HeadCount, another non profit that registers young voters at live music events. He blogs daily about progressive youth politics at FutureMajority.com and is an occasional contributor to MyDD, Tech President, and the Huffington Post's "Off the Bus" blog.

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