Clay Johnson will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “The Information Diet” following his Book Reading session.

Clay Johnson is best known as the co-founder of Blue State Digital, the firm that built and managed Barack Obama’s online campaign for the presidency in 2008. After leaving Blue State, Johnson was the director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, where he built an army of 2000 developers and designers to build open source tools to give people greater access to government data. He was awarded the Google/O’Reilly Open Source Organizer of the year in 2009, was one of Federal Computing Week’s Fed 100 in 2010, and won the CampaignTech Innovator award in 2011.
Johnson wrote the bestselling book "The Information Diet" and most recently worked as a Presidential Innovation Fellow making it easier for design and development shops to bid on government contracts.