In 2003, he co-founded the League of Young Voters & the League of Pissed Off Voters which organized 3000+ youth to create 300+ voter guides. He has co-founded several organizations including Ready for Warren, a campaign to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for President (2015) and the Solidaire Network (2013) a progressive donor community. Political Organizing and Social Entrepreneurship Projects include the Crazy Ideas Bank and the Movement Voter Project (MVP) which connects organic social movements and electoral politics VOTE MOB (which has trained and/or supported more than 900 local organizers in 33 states since 2012) Student Power Networks supporting long-term multi-issue student organizing in more than a dozen states and Local Vote (formerly ) a platform featuring progressive local voter guides in 50 states. He is also President of the Gamechanger family of organizations which supports innovation, collaboration, and new leaders to upgrade social movements for the 21 st Century. Social entrepreneur, philanthropic advisor, public speaker, journalist, and political organizer, Billy serves as the Executive Director of Movement 2017 a platform to support progressive donors to find and fund the best local and national networks combining grassroots issue organizing and voting. Billy Wimsatt, author of “Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs.” Photo credit: Rosemary Pritzker.
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