Melanie Garunay is the Digital Organizing Director at the ACLU, where she leads its grassroots organizing program, People Power. Previously, she worked as Deputy Director of Digital Outbound at the White House, Deputy Digital Director for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and Outbound Producer for the 2012 Obama for America campaign. She is a native of Janesville, Wisconsin and received her bachelor's degree from Brown University, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Brown Journal of World Affairs.