Alex
Steed is a freelance journalist,
activist, and online community
management consultant based in Boston and Portland,
Maine. He currently serves as executive editor
of MakeSomethingHappen.net, where he writes
about online organizing and the power of collective
action. Since his teens, Alex
has used writing to explore global social change
movements and youth engagement. He has directed
or worked with youth media projects including
Blunt Youth Radio, Just Naive Enough, Angioplasty
Media, and Hip Hop Without Borders. In the past
several years, he has enjoyed varying levels
of involvement with the Northwestern Global
Engagement Summit and Maine Youth Leadership.
During the fall of 2008, he will be documenting and analyzing
grassroots organization efforts in over 30 cities nationwide in a project
entitled "Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing."