People Calling People

About Us

"People Calling People is an outstanding innovation for political campaigns
and causes to effectively use their "people power" to reach and motivate
others. Callers enjoy making connections with live people. People Calling People eliminates the de-motivating process of dialing and getting nowhere. And it provides the flexibility for people to work from anywhere."

-–Deborah Angell Smith, former chair of the Democratic Party of Collin County (TX)

Ron Turner | CEO
Ron has been a leader in the telecommunications industry for more than 25 years. He began his career at Pagenet, where he advanced to vice president of systems & technology and was ultimately responsible for a nationwide network serving 4 million customers. He left Pagenet and raised $30 million to start a new venture, Directel, which provided paging services in Brazil and Argentina. Ron Turner has also served the Democratic Party for many years — most recently as technology chair of the Democratic Party of Collin County — and as a co-founder and vice president of Stonewall Democrats of Collin County. After working on Democratic campaigns in the 2004 election, he started People Calling People to provide a better way to engage people and build relationships.

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Johnnie Pegues
Johnnie has spent her professional life in Radio and TV advertising and marketing in both the national arena and in Dallas-Fort Worth. She specializes in research: demographic, psychographic, and geographic, using these specific tools to create and execute marketing promotions and advertising campaigns for a variety of clients, including radio stations, retailers, and advertising agencies. In addition, she has led national sales efforts in Internet Marketing. She is a native Texan who was graduated with a B. A. from Stephen F. Austin State University, with majors in History and English, plus minors in Education, Journalism, and French. Johnnie is a long-time Democratic Party activist whose political experience ranges from phone bank management for Governor Ann Richards in two statewide campaigns--right up to Hillary Clinton for President in 2008. With our society at risk of becoming fragmented and impersonal, Johnnie foresees greater reliance on personal contact and interaction between people to build relationships. She is leading the efforts of People Calling People in this area.

Nancy Wang | IT Consultant
Nancy Wang is an information service professional with over 20 years of experience leading and organizing development projects to achieve results. Experience includes project management, rapid application development, system analysis, database design, programming, training and team building. She has successfully completed a variety of projects ranging from small to enterprise platforms, from inception, requirement analysis, planning, system design, development, quality assurance though implementation and support. Industries experience includes banking, financial, public utility, oil & gas, national hospitality chains, and consulting. Nancy initially met Ron as a volunteer at the Dallas Coordinated Campaign in 2008, and decided to join PeopleCallingPeople'sexciting and focused projects.

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