Podcast appearances and mentions of sarah schacht

In the latest episode of the Ignite Seattle Podcast, I speak to Sarah Schacht about her talk, "#MeToo, What It Takes To Come Forward."In 2018, Sarah came forward publicly with her own #MeToo story as part of an article by Molly Redden of the Huffington Post. Her talk is about the logistics of coming forward publicly with a #MeToo story, along with the potential ramifications both personally and professionally. In the podcast, we talk about why Sarah decided to come forward with her story publicly to begin with. How her perspective has changed about her story over time, and what motivates her to keep going.Sarah has given multiple talks at Ignite in the past, including "I Got E. Coli So You Don't Have To" and "Appy Bride: How I Infuriated The Wedding Industry & Got My Dream Wedding."

Sarah Schacht wanted to make a career out of using the internet to make democracy stronger. She joined the Howard Dean presidential campaign in an effort to do that. During Sarah’s time there, something happened that would follow her for the next 15 years. Now she’s trying to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen to anybody else.

Sarah Schacht, Executive Director of Knowledge As Power, joined Nate DiNiro of Open Affairs Television to talk about the mission of the organization and other details about her career path and the ongoing open government movement. KAP helps citizens become informed and effective in the legislative process with online tools that help citizens track legislation and at the same time helps governments open up their process and data to engage citizens. Sara shares some details about her experiences, which led to her position as a resource for governments seeking to create more transparency, as well as some practical advice about sustaining the hard won ground which the open government movement has gained. Sarah also shares details of a crowd funded usability study led by KAP which helped the City of Seattle staff justify a reorganization of the City's website, stories of helping 10 Downing street, and how her activities as a student body representative to State government helped shaper her involvement in open government.

Do electeds and lawmakers weigh the importance communication styles differently? What's the going rate for a tweet on the political communications market these days? Do you really know what kind of impact you're making with that petition or form letter? In an advocacy world where everyone's got an opinion to voice, few people know how much weigh is--and isn't-- given to different types of political advocacy. The human brain assigns levels of value to everything, even the communications from other humans. Find out in this Ignite talk where you should invest your voice.