Background
Hampton was born in Modesto, California and was homeschooled.
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Adriel Hampton
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Education
University of California, Berkeley.
Career
He is the first person to announce his Congressional candidacy via Twitter. Hampton worked as an editor at the Lodi News-Sentinel, Alameda News Group, and San Francisco Examiner, and as an investigator for the San Francisco City Attorney" General’ s Office. Hampton founded Government 2.0 Radio.
Hampton describes the talk as highlighting efforts to improve transparency and responsiveness in the federal government.
Hampton gained publicity for use of Twitter and Facebook to campaign for the California-10 seat to replace Republican Tauscher. Hampton organized the crowdsourcing of an anti-Drug War policy statement.
Regarding this effort, he stated, “As Congressman, I’m going to practice what I preach. The job of a representative is to listen to and lead huge groups of people, and that means using new technologies to harness the ideas of many.”
On March 18, 2009, Hampton"s hometown Congresswoman Republican
Ellen Tauscher (Doctorate California-10) was nominated by President Barack Obama’s to serve as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
Pending Republican Tauscher’s approval by the United States. Senate, a special election to fill her seat took place. After his Congressional campaign, Hampton began working as Vice-President of Business Development at NationBuilder, a Los Angeles tech start up that does work on, among other things, websites for politicians such as California Governor Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
In 2015, Hampton left NationBuilder and founded a consulting firm, The Adriel Hampton Group.
Adriel"s consulting firm works with technology companies on sales, marketing and community building, and also with progressive nonprofits and campaigns. Hampton"s clients have included phone and email append provider Accurate Append, mobile canvassing app Ecanvasser, and the activist toolset Do Gooder. He is an adviser to VoterCircle.
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Membership
Adriel is a board member of LegiNation, Incorporated. and co-founded the San Francisco Technical Dems in 2011.
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Democratic party