Chief Executive Officer
CurrentThe Builders Movement (fka Starts With Us) equips citizens to overcome toxic polarization and solve our toughest problems together. We bring best-in-class content and toolkits to media, civic, and educational channels to foster flexible thinking and constructive problem-solving across lines of difference. So far we've:- Seen our content garner hundreds of millions of views while amassing an engaged online community of over 3.3MM followers and 150K newsletter subscribers- Recruited 300+ foremost leaders across business, entertainment, sports, journalism, faith, academia, service, national defense, and more as volunteer "Movement Partners" to co-create and advance our work- Launched the Builders Power Rankings in partnership with Polarization Research Lab, a weekly ranker of US Congress according to a proprietary "Builders Score" that uses AI and machine learning to analyze elected officials' public speech and legislative productivity and scores them based on speech and actions that constructively solve problems rather than sow further division- Launched Citizen Solutions, our flagship program convening ideologically diverse Americans to cooperatively tackle divisive issues at the state level, leading to 13 consensus-based solution proposals put forward across our two pilot states, TN and WI- Produced a feature-length documentary about our Citizens Solutions work, accepted into the Nashville Film Festival and the Int'l Black Film Festival- Teamed with leading augmented reality creator Karen X. Cheng to launch an Instagram AR filter that animates Abraham Lincoln on any US $5 bill, delivering a creative message of civic cohesion to hundreds of thousands of users- Been featured by PBS Newshour, Morning Joe, The Hill, The View, FOXNews.com, Pivot podcast, NPR's All Things Considered, The AP, Christian Science Monitor, NBC News, Digiday, News Nation, Deseret News, and recognized by the Shorty Awards, Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, and Anthem Awards