Ari Melber (amelber at hotmail.com) is The Nation’s Net movement correspondent, and a writer for the Campaign 08 blog at thenation.com. He is also a contributing editor at the Personal Democracy Forum, a nonpartisan website covering technology's impact on American democracy.  

His commentary has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Daily News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Politico, The Forward, New York Magazine's "Daily Intelligencer," CBSNews.com, Alternet.org, DemocracyArsenal.org and The American Prospect Online, among others. He has reviewed nonfiction books for the New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The Stranger.  He is also a contributor to MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country, a bestselling book about political activism (Inner Ocean Publishing, 2004).

Melber served as a legislative aide in the US Senate and was a national staff member of the 2004 John Kerry Presidential Campaign.   As a commentator on public affairs, he has appeared on national radio and television, including CNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, FOX and MSNBC.  Melber has been a featured speaker at forums sponsored by the Yale Political Science Department; Young Democrats of America; the Close Up Foundation, a nonpartisan civics education organization; YearlyKos 2006, the first national netroots convention; and YearlyKos 2007. He also served on the Advisory Committee to the YearlyKos Leadership Forum for seven presidential candidates in August 2007.

Melber was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  

Feedback and speaking requests may be sent to: amelber@hotmail.com