Lisa Conn

Prior to founding Gatheround, Lisa held leadership roles at Facebook, the MIT Media Lab, FWD.us, and President Obama’s campaign, consistently focused on healing societal division through community and technology.

At Facebook, Lisa led the company's efforts to build products that reduce polarization and build empathy on the platform. Lisa's expertise in reducing polarization came from her time at the MIT Media Lab when she partnered with Twitter to create the Electome which tracked the public response on social media to the 2016 U.S Presidential election. The product produced the first visualizations of the electorate’s ideological polarization and was described by Vice News as “a treasure trove on how Americans discussed one of the most contentious presidential races in history.”

Lisa's roots are in community organizing: she led large-scale community organizing programs as the National Organizing Director of FWD.us, and as a field director in the battleground state of Florida for President Obama.

Lisa studied social movements at NYU and earned her MBA at MIT. Previously named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, her work has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Vice News, and more.