CivicActions

Engineer Arthur Foelsche's background is in strategic web application development and deployment for nonprofit and progressive organizations. Arthur is the lead engineer on projects for Jim Hightower and the Hightower Lowdown, the New York League of Conservation Voters, and an active participant in the engineering team for the Institute for Noetic Sciences and Jerry Brown for California Attorney General. Arthur is currently focused on development on the Drupal content management system to improve turnkey solutions for smaller organizations to migrate in-print material to the web.

Before joining the CivicActions team, Arthur cofounded and was the Director of Development at Eggplant Active Media, overseeing a wide variety of PERL and PHP based web application development projects. Arthur was formerly an organizer with the ISE Biotechnology Project where he worked on numerous grassroots campaigns and developed the largest web-based database of material on biotechnology issues at the time. Arthur was also a technical organizer for Indymedia and helped the development of grassroots, web based media outlets in Seattle, Boston, Washington DC, and Prague.

Arthur has a BA from the University of New Hampshire, an MA from Goddard College, and is currently a PhD student in political science at the City University of New York. Arthur is also a founding member of Black Sheep Books, a non-profit radical and scholarly book store.