I create influential coalitions and momentum to make change. I translate vision and values into strategy and results, from raising $1.8B to address the climate crisis to leading a coalition of founders and investors scaling responsible companies to launching the Giving Pledge.

As Chief Operating Officer of Responsible Innovation Labs, I scaled the organization, raised capital, and shaped organizational strategy to equip our coalition of world-class founders and investors to align technological innovation with the long-term interests of humanity.
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For Commonwealth Fusion Systems, I helped launch the company and recently raised $1.8 billion in Series B funding in 12 weeks to unlock a climate solution at the scale of the problem: clean, limitless fusion energy.

I was the first hire on the Giving Pledge and took the pledge from zero to $1 trillion in three years, growing our ranks to nearly 100 billionaires (today it stands at $3 trillion from over 230 signers) to change norms around charitable giving.

In other roles – founding consulting firms, on the Omidyar impact investing team, for the City of New York, on political campaigns and Capitol Hill, and at Harvard Kennedy School – I have brought together elite influencers, frontline organizers, business executives, and created new organizations and industries to make change.

As founder of strategy consulting groups, I successfully designed and executed growth strategies for 50+ clients, including executives at Fortune 50 companies like Google and GE (ex: integrated social impact into GE corporate strategy), incubators like Elemental Excelerator and Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (ex: built impact frameworks across portfolio), funders like Democracy Fund (ex: influenced organizational strategy), and public-private partnerships like Accelerator for America (ex: shaped the organization to support inclusive and sustainable prosperity).

In government, I ran Public Affairs for the City of New York Parks Department under Michael Bloomberg. On Capitol Hill, I served two Democratic Leaders of the United States Congress: Nancy Pelosi and Dick Gephardt. I have worked on various political campaigns and conventions in every election.

I hold a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where I co-taught a graduate-level course on community and political organizing with Marshall Ganz and wrote a graduate thesis on civic engagement. I received and a full-tuition scholarship as a Kennedy Fellow and was valedictorian.