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

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.