Sarah Elise Lewis, Co-Founder, Common Knowledge New Orleans

"I was lucky enough to welcome Mary into the frenetic activism of our developing nonprofit. Right away she cut to the core of our needs -the ability to respond to immediate issues while envisioning long term advocacy strategies - and summarized tactics we had already been using but were too immersed in to describe ourselves. With Mary's help, we are much closer to affecting social change in New Orleans."

Sami Ben Gharbia, Advocacy Coordinator, Global Voices Online:

"I had the opportunity to work closely with Mary in different occasions like during the successful Free Monem campaign and I saw how passionate Mary can be about supporting bloggers or digital activists. Mary's passion and energy for digital activism is obvious in every action and initiative she makes.

One of her great work is the Global Voices Guide of Blog Advocacy "Blog for a Cause!" that she wrote with the same passion, expertise and knowledge. The guide provides the best tips and examples on how you can launch and run a successful blog advocacy. If you follow the directions and advices outlined by Mary in this cleverly structured guide, I'm pretty sure that your blog campaign will have extremely strong results. " 

Joshua Goldstein, former Associate Director, Global Youth Partnership for Africa:

"As a long time planner of events, I can say without hyperbole that you designed a truly fantastic event planning guide."

Gregg Nakano, Student Advisor, ALLIES (Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services)

"Starting is usually the hardest part. Unless you can clearly conceptualize what needs to get done and the prioritize the tasks, it's a bit like building a house by focusing on the wall colors. Mary helped us conceptualize what we wanted to do with the website and then refocused us to how that would be used to accomplish our end objective, which is to connect with people.

Mary's gift is to take amorphous ideas and then begin putting them into different categories and stepping stone tasks. She was able to turn a potentially complex technical task into something that brought all the different viewpoints together and channelled everyone's energy in a collaborative manner."

Bruce Etling, Project Director, The Internet & Democracy Project at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society:

"Mary is at heart an activist, and she thrives in an environment and work setting where she can help activists achieve their goals. I have been fortunate to work with Mary on both research and organizing an international conference with 40 participants from 17 different countries.

She played a key role in organizing a digital activism event in Turkey, where she helped establish the event's theme, create the agenda and identify participants; not to mention ensuring that the smallest logistical details were taken care of. She deserves much of the credit for organizing a tremendously successful event.

She also wrote one of the first case studies for the Internet & Democracy Project on the ground breaking South Korean user generated news site OhmyNews. While primarily intended to be a paper relying on secondary sources, she showed a tenacious work ethic in completing the case and carried out a significant number of interviews to strengthen it. Her organizational skills, intelligence, drive and enthusiasm ensure that any project she takes on are a success."