Audrie Krause

Audrie Krause is the founder of NetAction, an Internet-based non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public, policymakers and the media about technology-based social and political issues, and to promoting effective use of technology for grassroots organizing, outreach, and advocacy.  She edits and publishes two electronic newsletters, NetAction Notes and the Micro$oft Monitor, and her writing on Internet-based activism has been published in both print and electronic media.

A longtime activist, Ms. Krause previously served as Executive Director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and as Executive Director of TURN, a statewide utility consumer watchdog group.  At CPSR, she faciliated the group's participation as a plaintiff in ACLU v. Reno, which challenged the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act
provisions of the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996, and helped to establish Community Memory, a highly-successful and popular discussion list on the history of cyberspace.  During her tenure at TURN, she shined the media spotlight on
violations of California open meetings law by the state Public Utilities Commission and advocated successfully against rate increases to fund utility efforts to promote electric cars.

Ms. Krause also worked as a reporter for the Fresno Bee from 1978 through 1988, where her assignments included coverage of the PUC, healthcare and investigative reporting.  She has been active as an organizer and fundraiser for groups working on reproductive rights, nuclear disarmament and labor rights.

She has written extensively about technology policy and utility regulation, and her work has been published in numerous daily newspapers, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Sacramento Bee, and the San Jose Mercury News, as well as on the Mother Jones and Corporate Watch web sites, and other publications.  She is currently editor of two electronic publications,
NetAction Notes and the Micro$oft Monitor.