He described the group as a sounding board made up of citizen volunteers. (syracuse.com)
All of the above channels work even better when your lobbyists or citizen volunteers stop by to chat about the same issues. (epolitics.com)
Or how about the pharmaceutical industry — maybe we could have citizen volunteers take some crash courses in chemistry so they can check out their own drugs before swallowing them. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)