We're building an ecosystem.
Plurality Institute is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to fostering human cooperation and progress. We serve as a hub for academics, industry researchers, practitioners, and leaders from both civil and governmental sectors, all of whom are pushing boundaries to reimagine collaborative frameworks.
Our mission is to support and nurture the emerging field of plurality. We facilitate this through hosting both in-person and online events, supporting partner initiatives, sharing pivotal news and research updates, and offering a centralized job and opportunity portal to enhance ecosystem accessibility.
We aim to unify the expertise of stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds—from AI-enhanced democracy, Web3's altruistic potential, to peacekeeping research and cultural bridge-building initiatives.
We strive to operate in alignment with the values of the ecosystem we support, uplifting a variety of approaches and perspectives and fostering connections across the community we serve.
The Steering Committee
Our steering committee provides us with extensive experience and insight across the ecosystem, and helps to shape the overall vision for our work.
Audrey Tang
Former Minister of Digital Affairs
Taiwan
Danielle Allen
Political Science
Harvard University
Glen Weyl
Economics
Microsoft Research
Lisa Schirch
Peace Studies
Notre Dame
Michael Jordan
Computer Science
UC Berkeley
Our Team
We support the latest work in collective intelligence, deliberative democracy, tech for social inclusion and more.
Amina Vinson
Research Assistant
David Bloomin
Co-Founder & Special Projects
Firen Forrest
Chief of Staff
Isaac T. Levine
Research Assistant
Jeffrey Fossett
Research Lead
Rose Bloomin
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Advisors
Our advisors are subject matter experts that are deeply engaged with the plurality community, and support us with specific projects and endeavors.
Yu-Ting Kuo
Executive Board Member and Adjunct Faculty, MIT Sloan School of Management
Kinney Zalesne
Former General Manager of Corporate Strategy, Microsoft
Senior Advisor, GETTING-Plurality Initiative, Harvard
Scott Moore
Co-Founder, Gitcoin
Research Advisor, Metagov
James Evans
Professor, University of Chicago
Director, Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago
Puja Ohlhaver
GETTING-Plurality Research Network, Harvard Kennedy School
Wes Chow
Head of Engineering
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Vivian Chen
Contributor at da0/ g0v
Shrey Jain
TPM at Microsoft Research, GETTING-Plurality Research Network, Harvard Kennedy School
Aviv Ovadya
Founder, AI & Democracy Foundation;
Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center—Harvard;
Colin Megill
Co-founder, Pol.is;
President, The Computational Democracy Project