CivicActions

Engineer Arthur Foelsche's background is in strategic web application development and deployment for nonprofit and progressive organizations. Arthur was the lead engineer on projects for Jim Hightower and the Hightower Lowdown, the New York League of Conservation Voters, and continues to be the lead engineer on The Hub, a human rights video and activism platform launched by Witness. Arthur is the maintainer of Media Mover, a rich media engine for Drupal, which interfaces with a number of related rich media modules, such as: Flv Media Player, XSPF Playlist, FFmpeg Wrapper, etc.

Before joining the CivicActions team, Arthur cofounded and was the Director of Development at Eggplant Active Media, overseeing a wide variety of PERL and PHP based web application development projects. Arthur was formerly an organizer with the ISE Biotechnology Project where he worked on numerous grassroots campaigns and developed the largest web-based database of material on biotechnology issues at the time. Arthur was also a technical organizer for Indymedia and helped the development of grassroots, web based media outlets in Seattle, Boston, Washington DC, and Prague.

Arthur has a BA from the University of New Hampshire, an MA from Goddard College, and is a refugee from a PhD program in political science at the City University of New York. Arthur is also a founding member of Black Sheep Books, a non-profit radical and scholarly book store.