Michael Silberman

Social Impact Strategist

Michael Silberman is the Global Director of the Digital Mobilisation Lab. The "MobLab" exists to transform how campaigns are fought and won, pioneering a powerful new era of people-powered strategies that amplify campaign impact and create positive change. Silberman and his team work in 42 countries to envision, test, and roll out creative new means of communicating, organizing, and fundraising online.

Silberman serves on the board of Web of Change, a conference he chaired for four years that convenes today's leading thinkers and campaigners at the intersection of technology and social change, and he was most recently a founding Partner at EchoDitto, a digital consultancy empowering NGOs to have a greater impact through the creative use of new technologies. He cut his teeth on digital organizing and campaigning as the National Meetup Director for Howard Dean’s presidential run in 2004, where he led a team that regularly mobilized more than 189,000 local volunteers in over 1,200 cities worldwide.