🪴 Matt is passionate about philosophy, technology, & land stewardship. He focuses on collective action, open-source software, data science, & community & ecological resilience.🌱 Matt was Virginia Youth Governor (2004-'05). He earned his Bachelor's in philosophy from Harvard College. He was Harvard Student Body Vice President (2007-'08) then President (2008-'09).🇦🇷 He was a US State Department Fulbright Scholar in Argentina (2010-'11). He was a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Juan & taught philosophy in Spanish.⚖️ He reported on the Supreme Court for SCOTUSblog.com (2010-11). He was a Student Fellow at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession (2012-14).✍️ He has 800+ Google Scholar citations. He has has been cited in the Senate Judiciary Committee; Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation; New York Times; Stanford Law Review; & Yale Law Journal.🔒 He was the third member Facebook's Product Privacy Team (2012-'13). He was the PM for Facebook.com/dyi. He served two terms on the California Vital Statistics Advisory Committee (2012-'14).📈He is a Plotly Co-founder, was COO 2012 - 2015, & is now an advisor. He led product, open-source initiatives, grew the team to forty, & led growth to get to 1M users & $2M ARR. Plotly gets 17M downloads a month, has 586M total downloads, 97K GitHub ⭐, & is a leading global platform for data scientists & engineers. He led a partnership to integrate Plotly & Alteryx (2017).🏆 Along with Mark Zuckerberg, Nate Silver, & founders from Lyft, Reddit, & Airbnb, Matt was selected for the Top 40 Data Mavericks Under 40, the "definitive list of the most interesting & innovative people in data" (2015).📊 He was a Data Science & Product Management Instructor at General Assembly (2012 - 2015). 🚀 He was a Product Manager at Change.org (2015). He launched membership, which has 250K+ recurring donors. 💧 He led the build & launch of Water Equity, an open-source software platform & non-profit (2016). The Water.org fund has raised $460M & reached 6.2M people with clean water & sanitation through 1.2M microloans (95% to women). 🌿 He is the Director of Fly Ranch at Burning Man Nonprofit (5.6 square miles, 2017 - present). He has organized 50 - 400 people a week on site eight months a year, an international design challenge, & 103 campouts. Fly has been converted from a dump into a permanent Burning Man Rural Center for innovation, interactive arts, & community participation.👋 Matt is always looking for ways to collaborate towards a sustainable, equitable future.
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