John Aravosis is a Washington, DC-based writer and political strategist, and the editor of one of America’s leading Democratic political blogs, AMERICAblog.com. John has a joint law degree and masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and has worked in the United States Senate, the World Bank, and as a freelance writer for the Economist. John speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and Greek, and has given talks about online politics in France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, and Indonesia. In 2005, the Washingtonian magazine’s annual “50 Best Journalists” issue named John one of “journalism's rising stars, those likely to have a major impact in coming years… If the hype around blogging is to be believed, the future of journalism in America might look a lot like Aravosis.”