Virginia Simmons

Virginia Simmons is ONE's deputy director of new media and oversees ONE's U.S. website and U.S. online campaigns. Previously she served as ONE's online communications manager and online organizing coordinator. In 2005, Ginny created the first-ever blog written by a death row inmate, an online innovation that received national and international media attention. Starting in 2003, she served three years on Amnesty International's board for their Program to Abolish the Death Penalty. In 2005, she coordinated the death penalty community's online campaign around the 1,000th U.S. execution. Ginny has also worked as a fellow at the D.C. Public Defender Service, as a paralegal at the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and as an associate at M+R Strategic Services in their eCampaigns department consulting non-profits and campaigns on their email advocacy programs. She attended Georgetown University where she helped create a fictitious type of cheese (xanadu), which often still circulates as real throughout the Internet. Ginny grew up in New Hampshire.

Posts:

• Nelson Mandela’s Granddaughter,
• RED and YAHOO Launch Online Game That Fights AIDS in Africa,
• Live Video: Find Out How Well The G8 Countries Have Met Their Commitments,
• In Bangladesh, Empowering Villagers to Save Infant Lives,
• Breaking News! $1.5B For Child and Maternal Health,
• Roger Thurow: She’s The Boss,
• More Hawaiian ONE Members Fight for 2011 Budget,
• Maya and Dalai Ward Sign up 200 new members in Rockville, MD!,
• VIDEO: DATA Report Launch 2010,
• Behind-The-Scenes Video at The Globe and Mail,