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Joshua Grossman
The key person in ProgressivePunch is Joshua Grossman of Berkeley, CA.
Joshua is a social entrepreneur. He has an extensive background in a
wide variety of social change endeavors such as political campaigns,
co-producing a video for PBS on the destruction of the Redwood forests
in California, serving as an interpreter for earthquake rescue teams,
etc. His most successful entrepreneurial venture in a more conventional
sense is his co-founding of America's largest environmentally friendly
paper company, New Leaf Paper (2002 sales $15,000,000). While Joshua
has not been employed by New Leaf since 1998, he retains a significant
minority stake in the company. New Leaf is putting all profits into
growth and Joshua derives a negligible current income stream from the
company. Joshua has closely tracked politics in all 435
Congressional Districts across the United States since he was 13 years
old (for the last 31 years). He knows the names of all the members of
Congress off the top of his head, as well as their voting records and
the political demography of their districts. Some of the impetus behind
the web site is an effort to make much of this information as well as
much additional information available to a much wider public.
Eric McGhee
The actual descriptions of the votes cast by the United States Senate
and the United States House of Representatives have been written by
Eric McGhee, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley
who resides in Los Angeles.
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Visual and interaction design of ProgressivePunch by
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