Susan Mernit is the founder of Oakland Local, a news & community hub for Oakland, CA focused on
environmental, food, development and social justice issues, and the recipient
of a 2009 New Voices grant from J-Lab at American University. She is also the
consulting web strategist for The Center for Investigative Reporting's
California Watch project.
A former VP at AOL and Netscape, and a former
Yahoo Senior Director, Mernit was the consulting program manager for The Knight
News Challenge in 2008-09, as well as a consultant to
organizations including Salon.com & TechSoup Global, where she led the
re-design of their portal.
Mernit spent summer 2008 at TechStars, incubating a
company that died; that experience has super-fueled her energy. She is a contributing editor at
BlogHer, a blogger, and a co-founder of Public Media Collaborative, a volunteer
group focused on training nonprofits, ethnic media & community groups on
using social media tools.
A popular trainer and speaker, Mernit works
regularly with The Knight Digital Media Center at USC's Annenberg School, and
with The Maynard Institute, and is the Keynote program chair for the October
2009 Online News Association conference in San Francisco.
More data here:
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Oakland Local:
oaklandlocal.com
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Personal Blog:
susanmernit.com/blog
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Twitter: twitter.com/susanmernit
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Friendfeed: friendfeed.com/smernit
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Linked In:
linkedin.com/in/susanmernit
· BlogHer: blogher.com/blog/susan-mernit
Check out her LinkedIn Profile and the Wikipedia entry for more info. Or send her an email.









