This Twitter-happy celebrity couple has been dedicated members of Team Obama and the Democratic Party from day one, and will be using their tech savvy at the conference: Kutcher will be a panelist and Moore a guest for “Democracy and Voice: Technology For Citizen Empowerment and Human Rights.” They produced tongue-in-cheek viral videos for VoteForChange.com in late 2008 touting the then-Illinois senator’s presidential bid and made several appearances at colleges across the country in an attempt to galvanize the youth vote for Obama. Their pièce de résistance was a celebrity-packed video, directed and edited by Moore, that featured over 50 of Hollywood’s biggest stars pledging to vote Obama for president. The couple have also co-founded The Demi and Ashton Foundation (DNA), whose mission is to help raise awareness about and eventually bring an end to human trafficking. “There's an assumption that this one man is going to take on his new job full-time and somehow wave a magic wand of change, and I don't believe that to be true,” Ashton told Reuters. “I think that we have to be the leaders, and that's not celebrities—I think that we as citizens have to be leaders of the movement that we want to create.”
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