{"id":7828,"date":"2024-06-27T13:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/people\/tracy-westen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:21:43","slug":"tracy-westen","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/people\/tracy-westen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Westen"},"template":"","class_list":["post-7828","person","type-person","status-publish","hentry","person_type-national-governing-board"],"acf":{"details":{"first_name":"Tracy","last_name":"Westen","title":"Member Emeritus","organization":"","headshot":4937,"high_res_headshot":"","person_type":4,"hide_bio_page":false,"issues":false,"email_address":"","helper_social_links":null},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h2>Meet Tracy...<\/h2>\r\nSi Tracy Westen ay isang abogado para sa interes ng publiko, propesor ng batas at Tagapagtatag\/CEO ng Center for Governmental Studies, na lumikha ng mga reporma sa media at modelo ng mga batas sa pananalapi ng kampanya, halalan at etika para sa estado at lokal na pamahalaan.  Nilikha niya ang California Commission on Campaign Financing, California Citizens Budget Commission at California Citizens Commission on Higher Education. Gumawa din siya at gumawa ng mga bagong modelo ng media para sa civic engagement, kasama na\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/policyarchive.org\/\">PolicyArchive.org<\/a>, ang pinakamalaking libre, bukas na mapagkukunan ng pampublikong pag-aaral ng patakaran sa bansa; California Channel, ang pinakamalaking CSPAN ng estado ng bansa; Democracy Network, ang unang online na sistema ng debate at impormasyon ng kandidato sa bansa; VideoVoter, isang video-on-demand na sistema ng impormasyon ng botante para sa mga estado at lungsod; at Digital Democracy, isang prototype para sa citizen-to-elected-official dialogue. Siya ang nag-akda, nag-co-author o nag-edit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgs.policyarchive.org\">75 mga libro at mga ulat sa media, demokrasya at mga repormang panghukuman<\/a>.\r\n\r\nTracy was Vice President of Winner &amp; Associates, a Los Angeles strategic communications consulting firm; Chair of the Los Angeles Municipal Access Policy Board; and Chair of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grassroots.com\/\">Grassroots.com<\/a>. He created Public Communication, Inc., the nation\u2019s first public interest advertising agency, which developed radio, TV and print messages on auto safety, nutrition, and social welfare. He was Deputy Director for Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission and helped launch the FTC Children\u2019s Television Advertising\u00a0Rule-Making\u00a0Proceeding. 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