Darcy Burner is the President and Executive Director of ProgressiveCongress.org and the Progressive Congress Action Fund. A candidate for Congress in 2006 and 2008, she was the principal author and organizer of the Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, endorsed by more than sixty candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. She is also a member of the Afghanistan Study Group.

From 1995 until 2004, she worked in technology at companies including Lotus Development Corporation and Microsoft.

She has been a guest featured on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, the Ed Show, C-SPAN, ABC, NPR, Pacifica Radio, and a host of local programs, and featured in Roll Call, Politico, The Hill, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Huffington Post, DailyKos.com, The Nation, Mother Jones, and as a keynote speaker at Netroots Nation alongside Bill Clinton and Howard Dean. She is a regular front page contributor to OpenLeft.com discussing matters pertaining to Congress, and writes occasionally for DailyKos, Crooks & Liars, and Huffington Post as well.

She’s a member of the board of Council for a Livable World’s PeacePAC, the SNAP PAC Advisory Board, the Progressive Ideas Network Advisory Board, the Center for International Policy board, and chairs the Netroots Foundation board. She is a former board member of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In her spare time, she runs the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC.

Burner holds a BA from Harvard College in computer science with a special field of economics.