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Chris R. Hughes (born November 26, 1983)
co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory,
Facebook, with Harvard
roommates Mark
Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. He was the
coordinator of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online social networking website.[1] Hughes
is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, a
Cambridge venture capital
firm,[2] and a
strategic advisor at GMMB, a political consulting firm that worked
with the 2008 Obama campaign.[3]
Hughes was born in Hickory, North Carolina. He is a graduate of
Phillips
Academy Andover and Harvard College. He graduated from
Harvard in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and
literature.
Chris was featured as the cover story of April 2009's Fast Company under the
headline "The Kid Who Made Obama President; How Facebook Cofounder
Chris Hughes Unleashed Barack's Base- and Changed Politics and
Marketing Forever".
Chris is openly gay[4] and in
a relationship with Sean Eldridge.[5] In the
magazine The
Advocate he argues that the LGBT
civil rights movement has yet to tap the power of the social web, in the same
way that Facebook and the Obama campaign did, to involve the public
at large and “tell the story not just of gay politics, but the
story of everyday people who face injustice in their everyday
lives.[6]
He also served on the National Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institution in 2005 and
2006.
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