POPVOX is an innovative advocacy platform that meshes legislative data with individuals’ personal stories and sentiment. Winner of the social media category in the 2011 SxSW BizSpark Accelerator startup competition, POPVOX delivers public input to Congress in a format tailored to actionable policy decisions and empowers users to leverage their expertise and numbers. POPVOX provides a legislative dashboard for Congress and government affairs professionals with bill status information, customized tracking, bill-specific advocacy information, and real-time constituent sentiment and comments.

The POPVOX Foundation works “to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone.”This includes reimagining the concept of “civic infrastructure,” and providing new ways for government to share information and engage the public, with an emphasis on diverse participation and rebuilding public trust.

- Managed media and community relations for response, recovery and rebuilding effort.- Wrote FEMA grant and secured the largest floodplain hazard mitigation buyout project in Tennessee history.- Coordinated efforts for Community Redevelopment Plan and Redevelopment Act using federal, state, and local funding and private and nonprofit resources and volunteers

Institute for Global Development & the Environment (GDAE)