John Aravosis is a Washington, DC-based writer and political strategist.  Since 1995 he has been one of the America’s top experts in the use of the Internet for politics. Aravosis has diplomas from the University of Illinois and the University of Paris (Sorbonne), and a joint law degree/master in foreign service (JD/MSFS) from Georgetown University, where he studied under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.  After law school, Aravosis worked for five years as a legislative attorney on foreign policy and arms control issues for US Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK).  He then moved to the World Bank, working on the Mexico Division, and then the Children's Defense Fund, where he started their online advocacy program in 1995.  In 1997, he started his own political Internet consulting business, working with government, NGO, and corporate clients in the US, Africa, Asia and Europe.  Since that time, Aravosis has given talks about online politics in Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, and Indonesia. 

Aravosis is also a professional writer and journalist.  He has covered the Internet's impact on politics as a stringer for the Economist magazine (London), served as the US Politics editor at About.com, been published in The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and the New York Daily News, among others, and is the creator and editor of one of the United States’ most popular political blogs, AMERICAblog.com.

 Aravosis is a regular media pundit, having done hundreds of interviews in print and on the air, including appearances on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews,  ABC News "World News Tonight," and a variety of CNN’s political programming.  He has been interviewed by National Public Radio, the BBC, Univision, TIME, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Le Monde, and more. 

In 2005, the Washingtonian magazine’s annual “50 Best Journalists” edition named Aravosis one of “journalism's rising stars, those likely to have a major impact in coming years… If the hype around blogging is to be believed, the future of journalism in America might look a lot like Aravosis.”  Other “rising stars” honored alongside Aravosis included CNN’s Ed Henry and ABC’s Jake Tapper.

Aravosis is 44 years old, speaks Spanish, French, Italian and Greek, and has visited over 28 countries.  He is originally from Chicago, but now lives in Washington, DC.