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About Us

Our Team

Evan Henshaw-Plath, CTO

First engineer at Twitter, and founding member indymedia & protest.net. Evan has also been CTO of Digital Garage’s neo.com, and is a research affiliate at MIT, where he has taught lean design in the Media Lab.

Matt Holland, President

Matt has two decades of experience in the online advocacy space and was CTO of Avaaz.org. He’s advised Greenpeace, MoveOn, Mozilla Foundation, Women’s March, OPEN Network, and others on the effective use of technology for social change projects.

David Taylor, Product advisor

Technology Director with Avaaz.org, previously director of online organizing for Rainforest Action Network. Founded Radical Designs advocacy & development consultancy.

Advisory Committee

L.J. Amsterdam

L.J. Amsterdam

Community organizer
Direct Action Trainer, Ruckus Society

Marty Kearns

Marty Kearns

Exec. Director, Netcentric Campaigns
Co-founder and Executive Director, Green Media Toolshed

Mrinalini Chakroborty

Mrinalini Chakroborty

Head of Field Operations & Strategy, Women’s March Network
Founder & President, Women’s March Illinois

Micah Sifry

Micah Sifry

Co-founder and Executive Director, Civic Hall
Editorial director and co-founder, Personal Democracy Media

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Associate Professor of Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty Associate, Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

Zack Exley

Zack Exley

Senior Advisor, Bernie Sanders for President Campaign
Co-Founder, Justice Democrats
Co-founder, New Organizing Institute

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