Biographies of Speakers: E-Government: Constituent Mail in the Time of Anthrax
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Dennis Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Graduate School of Political Management,
George Washington University
Dennis W. Johnson, Associate Dean, Graduate School of Political Management, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He is currently principal investigator for the Congress Online Project, a joint research project of the George Washington University and the Congressional Management Foundation, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Johnson is currently writing a book entitled Clogged Circuits: Congress, the Internet, and Electronic Communications, and editing another book entitled Congress and the Challenges of the Internet. Both of these are part of the Congress Online Project research efforts. He is also author of No Place for Amateurs: How Political Consultants Are Reshaping American Democracy (Routledge, 2001) and teaches in the Master of Arts in Legislative program at George Washington University. He was the former chief of staff to the late Congressman Norman Sisisky of Virginia.
Rebecca Fairley Raney, Technology Journalist
Rebecca Fairley Raney is a writer and editor who covers technology and the Internet. From 1996 to 2000, she was a columnist and regular contributor to The New York Times on the Web, where she covered electronic democracy. Her articles have also appeared in Online Journalism Review, Red Herring, Interactive Week, the Atlantic Unbound, Writer's Digest and the print version of The New York Times. Before writing for The Times, she spent a decade as a general assignment reporter and specialist in computer-assisted reporting for newspapers in Southern California. Raney graduated in 1987 from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Anne Reed, President, EDS State & Local Government
Anne Reed currently serves as President for EDS's State & Local Government Solutions group. Reed joined EDS in 2000 and previously served as managing director in EDS' Government Global Industry Group. Prior to joining EDS, Reed was chief information officer from 1996-1999 for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she led the groundwork for e-government, strengthened the department's telecommunications capacity and focused on information assurance, computer security and protection of privacy. Reed also was chosen by President Clinton to serve on the President's Y2K Council, where she was instrumental in creating an atmosphere of heightened awareness, urging agencies to be proactive to avoid a potential national crisis. She received the Hammer Award from Vice President Gore for her work during Y2K.
In 1999, Reed became chair of the General Administration Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Graduate School, which trains 140,000 students each year from across the country.
Reed's prior government experience also includes 12 years in financial management with the U.S. Department of the Navy and two years in city planning in Nashville, Tennessee.
Reed is a member of the Board of the Industry Advisory Council and serves on advisory committees for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and the Kennedy School of Government. Earlier this year she was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Electronic Government of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Joint Commission on Technology and Science.
Reed is a recent winner of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Public Service Alumni Achievement Award. She was named Government CIO of the Year in 1998 by Government Computer News and in 1997 by the Federation of Industry and Government Information Processing Councils.
Reynold Campbell Schweickhardt, Committee on House Administration
Mr. Schweickhardt has been with the Committee on House Administration since 1995. He provides support for the technology direction of the House and entities within the legislative branch of the U.S. Government. Previously he has worked served at House Administration as Professional Staff and Deputy Staff Director prior to becoming Director of Technology in 2001. He has served as Staff Director and Deputy Director of the Joint Committee on Printing, and currently serves as the Deputy Staff Director. He has also served as Staff Director and Deputy Staff Director of the Joint Committee on Printing.
Prior to moving to Washington DC Mr. Schweickhardt worked for Hewlett-Packard Corporation for 11 years in Silicon Valley, California. He attended the University of California at Santa Barbara.