Josh Silver (born April 16, 1968) is the co-founder and director of RepresentUs, a post-partisan, nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to build the movement that fixes America's corrupt political system. Silver formerly served as CEO and co-founder of Free Press, an "activist group that promotes accountability journalism and Internet openness". He served as the director of development for a cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution, and was the campaign manager of the successful 1998 "Clean Elections" ballot measure in Arizona. He has published widely on democracy, media, telecommunications, campaign finance and a range of other public policy issues. Silver has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and in most major media outlets. He speaks nationally on democracy and issues