| Dear Friend: We're thrilled to announce that tickets are now on sale for Personal Democracy Forum 2018, which is taking place June 7-8 at the New York Law School. Act now to lock in your seats at our very best early-bird rates by going to our new website. Plus, we're pleased to share our first group of confirmed speakers:
Malkia Cyril, Center for Media Justice
Renee DiResta, Data4Democracy
Anna Galland, MoveOn Civic Action
Natalie Evans Harris, Community Principles on Ethical Data Sharing
Myaisha Hayes, Center for Media Justice
Seamus Kraft, OpenGov Foundation
Kate Krontiris, Democracy.Works
Pia Mancini, Democracy.earth
Malka Older, author of "Infomocracy"
Jerry Michalski, Relationship Economy Expedition
Trebor Scholz, Platform Coopertivism Consortium
Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of "The Anti-Social Network: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy"
This year's theme is “How We Make Good,” with a focus on these two inter-related questions:
-How we make good on creating, strengthening, and securing democracy and its core institutions. -How we make sure that tech acts as a force for good in the civic life of the citizens of democracy. This year's PDF will be different: more participatory, collaborative, and engaging. Both days of the conference will be centered on six morning anchor keynotes that will kick off themes to be explored in the afternoon in six parallel in-depth workshops. Our goal is not only to inspire you with talks from some of the best minds at the intersection of tech and politics, but to help you plug into the vital efforts underway to actually make sure that we make good on preserving democracy and ensuring that tech is a force for good. In the coming weeks, we'll be sharing more details about the conference, including more speakers, a detailed schedule, and ways for participants to start connecting well before the doors open June 7. Act now to get our best registration rates; early-bird tickets are limited. See you in June! Andrew, Micah, Danielle P.S. We are still taking proposals for main hall talks, workshop ideas or suggestions for a PDFopen session. Our website has a form that you can fill out! | 
