JUSTIN RUBEN

Justin Ruben is the Executive Director of MoveOn.org. He's been on staff since 2004. Most recently he was MoveOn's Organizing Director, and he supervised the organization's day-to-day online and offline campaign work. He's also the primary architect of MoveOn's field organizing program. Justin helped launch MoveOn's initial organizing efforts in the 2004 elections, and he created MoveOn's network of local member councils. In 2006, he ran MoveOn's "Call for Change", a voter turnout effort that recruited more than 100,000 volunteers to make seven million calls to voters in key House and Senate districts and helped tip Congress to the Democrats.

Justin's been working as an organizer on labor, environmental justice and fair trade issues for 13 years. Before he joined MoveOn, he was as an organizer for the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in New Haven, CT. And he got his start as a community organizer working for Pesticide Watch in Fresno, California, helping neighborhoods deal with the health impacts of pesticide pollution.

An Eagle Scout from New Haven, CT, Justin has a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and a B.A. in Environmental Biology from Dartmouth College.

These days, Justin spends his days in Austin, TX, with his wife, Autumn Leonard, and their two adopted dogs, Abzug and Medgar. When he is not staring at a laptop or attending a MoveOn house party, he likes walking in the woods, watching bad movies, and mountain biking.