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Chris Rabb is a consultant, social commentator, and "netroots" activist.

He has been covered by or featured on C-SPAN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, various nationally syndicated radio shows on NPR, Air America Radio and XM Radio, having also been an on-air guest on radio shows hosted by Tavis Smiley, Michael Eric Dyson, Bev Smith, and Al Sharpton. Mr. Rabb is also a published writer, having written for such publications as The Nation, Colorlines, Mother Jones and Savoy Magazine. A former columnist at the Yale Daily News, Mr. Rabb was also a stand-up comedian while in college and is a trained improvisational comedy performer and group facilitator. He has spoken at conferences, universities, corporations and other venues across the U.S., Europe and Brazil.

He was one of fewer than approximately 40 credentialed bloggers at the 2004 Democratic Convention, blogging on-site for Afro-Netizen, which he founded in 1999. And since his groundbreaking participation at the Convention, he is a regular panelist at a number of major conferences focusing on participatory journalism, new media, civic engagement and social justice, such as Take Back America, National Conference for Media Reform, Personal Democracy Forum Conference, Online Politics Conference, the Facing Race Conference, ConvergeSouth, and other nationally recognized gatherings.

Presently, he is a principal with Visceral Ventures LLC, a consultancy focusing on organizational effectiveness and new media strategy. His professional specialties center on effective means of targeting and engaging various constituencies, including: voters, consumers, and other groups within predominantly African-American communities.

He is a graduate of Yale College and also earned an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. Chris is a 2001 American Marshall Memorial Fellow, and was elected as a Democratic Committeeman in May 2006, serving his Mt. Airy neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia. A native of Chicago, he is the proud husband of Professor Imani Perry, and father to two sons, Freeman Diallo and Issa.

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Obama's Proposed "Small Business" Initiative Lacks Audacity (and Focus) Most people don't realize this, but 99% of American businesses are "small businesses". That is, only one in 100 business employs 500 or more workers, which is how the Small Business Administration (SBA) generally defines this term so often bandied about by politicians on both sides of the political spectrum.

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