Joe Trippi has run and consulted on numerous presidential, senate, congressional, gubernatorial and mayoral races. He began his political career, working on Edward M. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980, and his work has continued with the presidential campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt, Howard Dean, and most recently, John Edwards.

In recent years, Trippi’s work on Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential bid and John Edwards’ 2008 campaign has been applauded for its pioneering use of the internet and new media to launch and build a presidential campaign. In 2004, Trippi became widely known for his use of online technology to organize “Dean for America,” which became the largest grassroots movement in presidential politics, raising more money than any Democratic presidential campaign to that point, all with donations averaging less than $100.

Trippi is the author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything. He is a CBS News political analyst and former Harvard University Fellow.