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Will Byrne | |
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 Byrne in 2014 | |
| Education | B.A. Vassar College[1] |
| Occupations | Activist, entrepreneur, CEO |
| Known for | Groundswell (organization) |
Will Byrne is an activist and entrepreneur. Will was named one of Forbes’s 30 Under 30.[2]
Early career
[edit]Byrne worked in journalism at Der Spiegel as well as the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, before joining Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.[1]
During his work on President Obama's 2008 campaign, Byrne utilized online and offline community organizing tactics. Byrne and his co-founders saw the impact of community organizing in the political sphere.[3][4] Rather than joining the administration after Obama was elected, Byrne went on to develop these tactics as a social entrepreneur.[5]
Groundswell
[edit]In 2009, Byrne, Max Harper, Marcus Ryan, John Lauer, Kristen Psaki, and Tony Ficarotta co-founded Groundswell after working on President Obama’s 2008 campaign.[6] Groundswell is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that uses collective buying power to drive positive social change, especially in the clean energy sector.[7] Byrne called this model "civic consumption."[8] Byrne was CEO until 2014.[citation needed]
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (school)
[edit]In 2015, Byrne joined the school as a Civic Innovation Fellow.[9]
Later work
[edit]Following Stanford, Byrne was Senior Director of the Innovation Lab at Human Rights First, and presented about issues of bias, inclusion, and human rights in computer vision and artificial intelligence technology.[citation needed] As of 2023, he was listed as an affiliated fellow at the Citris Policy Lab, which describes itself as supporting interdisciplinary research and education regarding the role of regulation in promoting innovation.[10]
Honors and awards
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Champions of Change: William Byrne" Whitehouse.gov
- 1 2 "Forbes 30 Under 30" Forbes, Retrieved on 17 December 2012
- ↑ "Power in Numbers: Crowd Purchasing Brings Clean Energy Within Reach" Grist, Retrieved on 16 May 2012
- ↑ "The Evolution of a Green Organization" BlogTalkRadio, Retrieved on 21 March 2012
- ↑ "Who’s Next: Will Byrne" Washington Life, Retrieved on 19 May 2011
- ↑ "Will Byrne, Cofounder, Groundswell". Forbes. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ↑ "The Evolution of Cool in DC. Will Byrne: Socially Conscious CEO"Capitol File magazine, Retrieved on 1 June 2014 Archived 10 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Townsend, John (29 September 2015). "Is 'Civic Consumption' Our Best Hope For Climate Action?". Thomson Reuters Foundation. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ↑ "Will Byrne". The Whiteboard. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ↑ "People". CitrisPolicyLab.org. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ↑ "Champions of Change: Harnessing the Power of Community and Clean Energy" White House Blog, Retrieved 13 April 2011