CivicActions

Gregory Heller is a political technologist working with CivicActions as a project manager and application specialist. A veteran member of the team (starting in June 2005) Gregory became a Member of CivicActions, LLC, in October of 2006. Though Gregory's recent experience is in the world of politics and government, he has also recently worked with CivicActions clients across the spectrum, including managing the Environmental Ethics Network project and project management for our work with Jim Hightower's organizations. He is currently the campaign manager for Defective by Design, a campaign of the Free Software Foundation to increase awareness about the threat DRM poses to personal privacy and security.

Before joining CivicActions, Gregory Heller worked for the Office of the Minority Leader of the New York State Senate. While working for the Democratic Conference he was responsible for strategic technology planning, online communications strategy and data analysis. Gregory also worked with the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee where he performed electoral targeting and online communications strategy as well as grass roots technology strategy. In 2004, Gregory worked on 5 Senate Campaigns, four of which were successful, resulting in a net gain of three seats, the largest in the history of the Senate.

During the 2004 Presidential Campaign, Gregory worked with John Edwards, starting in 2003, and specifically performing voter targeting for the New York City metropolitan area in the run up to the Super Tuesday Presidential Primary. Following Super Tuesday, Gregory worked with Downtown For Democracy, a PAC formed to energize artistic communities around political activism.

Before working with the Senate, Gregory worked for NY ACORN as a technology strategist, database developer and grant writer. Gregory was instrumental in designing the National ACORN Member Database, and a number of voter contact databases used by ACORN and it's allies including New York's Working Families Party.

Gregory is also a veteran of numerous city and state campaigns in New York, including Mayoral, City Council, State Senate, Gubernatorial and City Charter Revision.

Gregory is an active participant in the CivicSpace and AdvoKit user communities and the larger non profit technology community. Gregory is a member of NTEN and the NYC 501 Tech Club.

Gregory holds a Masters degree in Public and Non profit administration from New York University where he also completed his undergraduate degree in Metropolitan Studies and Architecture and Urban Design. He has served for 6 years on the Board of the College Alumni Association and is a member of the Young Alumni Leadership Circle.