markscrain

I'm an online campaigner and digital strategist with experience serving both small nonprofit and national advocacy organizations. For five years, I managed a web design firm, DeCrain Solutions, that specialized in establishing the online presence of small businesses and nonprofits. I've since served as Communications Coordinator for the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, a community organizing outfit on the south side of Chicago, and held the role of Digital Constituency Manager at Obama for America, where I coordinated online outreach to several key constituencies during the 2012 campaign, including African Americans and Young Americans.

As a campaigner with the progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org, I contribute to member empowerment and strategizing that includes creative use of social media, email and new web technologies. I also serve as an advisor and consultant to several other groups, where I try to apply new media and online advocacy skills to local organizations and community-based initiatives.

In large part, my interests center around three topics: faith (particularly Islam), community and political organizing, and race in society. My work is informed by a desire for (social) justice that was ignited in my teens, particularly around the time I first read the Autobiography of Malcolm X. I lived for several years in Chicago but recently relocated back to Detroit with my lovely wife Hazel and our son Musa.

(background is a composite of Detroit and Chicago)