Who runs GetUp?
GetUp has a core team of staff and volunteers in Sydney, who conduct research on new campaigns, develop the website, prepare GetUp email updates and raise awareness of our campaigns in the media. GetUp is led by Executive Director Brett Solomon, who has been working on social justice and development issues for more than ten years. In that time he founded the International Youth Parliament with Oxfam and worked as the Campaign Coordinator at Amnesty International Australia. GetUp was founded by Jeremy Heimans and David Madden, two young Australian graduates of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government who have worked at the intersection of technology, new media and politics in the United States. David and Jeremy are now co-founders of Avaaz.org, a new global online political community inspired by the success of GetUp and the US group MoveOn.org. GetUp has a board that advises the staff. The board includes GetUp’s co-founders, company director Don Mercer, community organiser Aman
