Matthew Segal Biography
Matthew Segal is an American media commentator, political activist, and social entrepreneur. He is also a co-founder of ATTN: a media company in Los Angeles that specializes to deliver engaging content to a mobile-first audience.
Segal is also known as the co-founder of an American non-profit organization known as Our Time. The organization focuses on organizing nationwide campaigns registering and educating voters as well as advocate for economic opportunities.
Matthew Segal Age
Segal is 33 years old as of 2018. He was born on 18th October 1985 in Chicago, Illinois.
Matthew Segal Alma Mater
Matthew attended New Trier High School, a public high school in Winnetka, Illinois and proceeded to Kenyon College. He graduated magna cum laude from the college in 2008. While he was a student in college, Segal advocated student voting rights after his campus polling place experienced the longest lines in the 2004 presidential election.
Matthew Segal Career
As a result of the long voting lines in 2004 at Segal’s alma mater, Kenyon College, Segal testified to the US House Judiciary Committee that was investigating election irregularities. A 19-year Segal said, “It seems almost hypocritical that a society so focused on the importance of voting is not concerned with the voting process.
The issue of young people voting led Segal to form the Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE), when he was a junior in college at the age of 21. Its aim was to break down barriers to electoral participation so as to bring young Americans into the political process as well as encourage youth-led policy solutions. SAVE expanded to more than 15 states in 40 college campuses and worked on election protection initiatives as well as expanding voter access through initiatives such as the Student VOTER Act.
Due to the youth unemployment menace, Matthew helped cofound the 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs Coalition. This was after the 2008 presidential election that addressed youth unemployment and other economic challenges faced by Americans under 30.
Matthew Segal Huffington Post – Media Career
One of Segal’s career ventures is that he is a media commentator. As such, he is a contributing writer for the Huffington Post and regularly appears on MSNBC and other TV networks as a correspondent to discuss the political opinions and attitudes of young Americans and their consumer behavior. He has also written many editorials on unemployment and media misrepresentation, some of the topics affecting young Americans. Segal has featured on several television channels that include CNN, Fox, C-SPAN, and MSNBC.
Matthew Segal ATTN and Our Time
Segal and Jarrett Moreno are the co-founders of the two organizations. Our Time is an organization that was founded in 2010 when Segal merged SAVE and Declare Yourself, a voter registration non-profit campaign registration by TV producer and director Norman Lear.
Our Time also led to the launch of an online marketplace of businesses called Buy Young. The businesses were founded and run by entrepreneurs under 30 and encouraged Americans to buy products from young companies and support youth job creation.
In 2014, Segal and Moreno launched ATTN: the company. The aim of the company is to create “content that breaks down complex issues, making politics interesting for millennials, and analyzes the world from the perspective of the social media generation.” Segal is the chief editor of ATTN: He has worked hard to build the company’s editorial department by honing the style, voice, and tone of its video and leading the writing and visual storytelling teams.
In an interview in 2017, Segal revealed that ATTN:’s content was reaching over 400 million viewers, every month.
Matthew Segal Net Worth
Segal has an estimated net worth of $1.4 Million. This is from his many ventures in his career.
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