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David Segal (politician)
David Adam Segal is an American politician, activist, and writer who was a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, representing District 2 (East Providence and Providence) from 2007 until January 2011. Prior to that, he served as Minority Leader of the Providence City Council from 2003 until 2007, elected at the age of 22 as the first and only member of the Green Party ever elected in Rhode Island. Segal was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the state's 1st congressional district on 14 September 2010. He serves as the executive director of the online organizing group Demand Progress. The organization helped lead the fight against the Stop Online Piracy Act and related bills. Segal is a co-editor of a book about that effort, being published by O/R Books, called ''Hacking Politics''.
==Biography==
Segal was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Maryland. His father, Herman Benjamin Segal, is a cardiologist originally from Portland, Maine, and his mother, Andrea Leonard-Segal, is a rheumatologist working for the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. All four of his grandparents were Eastern European Jews who immigrated to the United States during the 1920s.
Segal graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Columbia University in 2001. Having spent time in Providence, Segal decided to relocate there during the summer of 2001, and that fall began a position at the Wheeler School as an instructor, teaching assistant, and tutor. He has worked as an analyst for FairVote, and a researcher and paralegal for a consumer rights attorney. Segal is active in the Progressive States Network, and is a contributor to the Rhode Island political blog, Rhode Island's Future. In 2007, he co-founded the arts, culture, and activism blog, ''Providence Daily Dose''.
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