Executive Director, Youth04 Project
Email: danderson@cdt.org
David M. Anderson is Executive Director of Youth04. Youth04 aims to unite the best of online and offline activities both to empower 18-25 year olds and to compel candidates to be more responsive to them. This project grows out of Anderson's pilot for the 2002 election, Maryland Internet Politics Week.
Anderson was the Task Force Director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet (previously the Democracy Online Project). The 16 member Task Force was Co-Chaired by former U.S. Representatives Patricia Schroeder (D-Colorado) and Rick White (R-Washington).
The Task Force raised public awareness about a series of policy questions concerning the Internet and democratic values. It held three public testimony sessions and two public debates. Each of the public debates - "Voting in the Information Age" and "Privacy and Online Politics: Is Online Profiling Doing More Harm Than Good for Citizens in Our Political System?" -- generated handbooks with papers, survey data, bibliographies, web resources, and glossaries.
Anderson is co-editor (with Michael Cornfield) of and contributor to the The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values (Rowman and Littlefield). He has written about the Internet and democracy for Computers and Society, Politicsonline.com, Intellectualcapital.com and other publications.
Anderson has been quoted in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Herald, Slate.com, USAToday.com, and other publications. He is also a Contributing Editor for Politicsonline.com. He has been interviewed many times in the broadcast media and delivered speeches about Internet politics at such places as Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the Austin Convention Center in Texas.
A major focus of Anderson's research, teaching and writing has concerned young people. He has defended his national family policy "The Family Unity Act" in various places, including Progressive Politics in the Global Age, edited by Henry Tam (Blackwell, 2001 (USA); Polity, 2001 (UK). He has been a panelist at two Hugh O'Brian Youth (HOBY) World Leadership Congress meetings in Washington. Anderson has also written a number of articles about communitarian public philosophy.
Anderson is a frequent contributor to the op-ed page of both the Baltimore Sun and the (Maryland) Gazette (Weekend Edition). His op-eds have also appeared in the Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal, the Dayton Daily News, the Portland Press Herald, Roll Call Daily, and The Hill.
He was also a Senior Fellow in the Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program in 1997 and 1998. Among other things, he served on a committee focused on youth, character development and tomorrow's workforce.
He received his B.A. in Philosophy from The George Washington University in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1990. He has taught over a dozen different courses in the Philosophy Departments at George Washington University, the University of Cincinnati, Trident Technical College and the College of Charleston.
Anderson is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at The George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management, where he has taught the required political ethics class since 1995.