Chris R. Hughes (born November 26, 1983 in Hickory, North Carolina) co-founded and served as spokesperson for the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. He was the coordinator of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online social networking website.[1] Hughes is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, a Cambridge venture capital firm,[2] and a strategic advisor at GMMB, a political consulting firm that worked with the 2008 Obama campaign.[3]
Chris Hughes is a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature.
Chris was featured as the cover story of April 2009's Fast Company under the headline "The Kid Who Made Obama President; How Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Unleashed Barack's Base- and Changed Politics and Marketing Forever".
Chris is openly gay. [4] In the activist magazine The Advocate he argues that the LGBT civil rights movement has yet to tap the power of the social web, in the same way that Facebook and the Obama campaign did, to involve the public at large and “tell the story not just of gay politics, but the story of everyday people who face injustice in their everyday lives.[5]
He also served on the National Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institution in 2005 and 2006.
References
- ^ http://My.BarackObama.com
- ^ TechCrunch (2009). After Facebook And The Obama Campaign, Chris Hughes Takes a Post At General Catalyst. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ GMMB (2009). Digital Pioneer, Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Joins Progressive Communications Firm GMMB. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
- ^ "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign". http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/134/boy-wonder.html?page=0%2C1. by Ellen McGirt, Fastcompany.com. "I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight."
- ^ "Hope and History". http://www.advocate.com/issue_story_ektid102115.asp?page=5. by Michael Joseph Gross. The Advocate.
Further reading
- Fast Company, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign"
- Wall Street Journal, "BO, U R So Gr8: How a young tech entrepreneur translated Barack Obama into the idiom of Facebook"
- Chicago Tribune, "Social sites go political," 09/23/07 and photo gallery
- BusinessWeek, "A Hot New Twist on the Old College Try", 7/21/04
- peHUB "Facebook Co-Founder Joins Venture Capital Firm"
- The 3rd annual Power 50, #32 Chris Hughes
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