The Future Of The Resistance: With Special Guest, Holly Figueroa O'Reilly

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Holly Figueroa O’Reilly was crowdsourcing before crowdsourcing was cool. In 1999, she founded Indiegrrl, an organization for women in the independent music industry. What began as a small mailing list became a monster organization. Indiegrrl supported nearly five thousand female musicians internationally; they booked tours, shared resources, and helped one another get ahead in the male-dominated music industry. Since then, Holly has performed over one thousand tour dates, was a national co-organizer for “March for Truth”, is an administrative member of CrowdRescueHQ, and has sued the President of the United States for blocking her on Twitter. And won. Asked why she founded BWCS, she replied, “I was having a hard time keeping all of the 2018 candidates I supported in my Twitter group DM’s, so I started a Slack workspace for candidates mostly for myself. I invited some other folks concerned about the same thing to join me there. Before we knew it, there were hundreds of volunteers, campaign staff, and candidates all working together to increase their social media reach. I always tell people that the Blue Wave isn’t something that just happens. It’s something we MAKE happen, and this is one of the ways we can help make it happen.” Holly lives in Seattle with her husband, 5 kids, and way too many guitars.