Brian Webster is the communications manager of Sound Action. He works from a home office in the Union Square neighborhood of San Francisco. Originally from New York he has been active as a progressive community organizer in the Bay Area for over 25 years.

Brian is a social entrepreneur and event producer with a special interest in marketing, promotions and communications. A life-long social activist, his philosophy is based on Buckminster Fuller's concept of using personal commitment and design science for global problem solving and sustainable success for humanity. He has worked with a wide variety of groups and causes including; the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Rock Against Racism, Music for America, the Bay Area Music Awards, Community United Against Violence, Amnesty International, New El Salvador Today, Mobilization for Peace Jobs and Justice, Instituto Laboral De La Raza, United Farm Workers Union, Delancey Street Foundation, Unity Foundation, Grameen Foundation USA, Save The Earth Foundation, the ONE campaign and UNICEF.

His firm Brian Webster and Associates provides consulting in sales, marketing, business development, social enterprise development, fundraising, special event production and community organizing. He has run his own high-tech media company and has extensive experience with media, advertising, marketing and promotions. During the dot-com boom days in San Francisco he produced Internet and technology business networking events including 415TECH - the cities largest Internet business networking event. In 2000 he published San Francisco's Dot-Com Directory. In 1998 he was the national corporate relations manager for the Association of Internet Professional. In 1991 he started organizing in the emerging socially responsible business movement and helped launch Business for Social Responsibility in the Bay Area. Brian ran the San Francisco Marathon in 1985, the history making global Sport Aid race in 1986. He is very familiar with sports marketing and the global running community. For the past 14 years he has been an active partner with RESULTS, a nonpartisan citizens lobby focused on creating political will to end extreme global poverty. He is the founder and project manager of Human Race Day (www.humanraceday.org), a global social enterprise, headquartered in San Francisco.

Brian has extensive experience working with NGO leaders, business leaders, local government, national government and UN officials at all levels. He has a wide range of organizing and production experience, including; organizing logistics for marches and rallies of up to 200,000 persons for broad based coalitions, producing a culture and technology exposition for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, producing videoconferences for UNESCO and press conferences for UNICEF, organizing Internet and live radio charity auctions simultaneously in a dozen cities, creating adverting and sponsorship promotions for national ad agencies and global brand companies.