Virginia Simmons is ONE’s Online Communications Manager and oversees all the content on ONE’s websites. In 2005, Ginny created the first-ever blog written by a death row inmate, an online innovation that received national and international media attention. Starting in 2003, she served three years on Amnesty International’s Board for their Program to Abolish the Death Penalty. In 2005, she coordinated the death penalty community’s online campaign around the 1,000th U.S. execution. Ginny has also worked as a fellow at the DC Public Defender Office, an as intern for Senator Russ Feingold, as a paralegal at the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and as an Associate at M+R Strategic Services in their eCampaigns Department consulting non-profits and campaigns on their internet advocacy campaigns. She attended Georgetown University where she helped in creating a fictitious new type of cheese (xanadu), which often still circulates as real throughout the Internet. Ginny grew up in New Hampshire.