Cutting Through the Clutter: Leveraging Media to Get Attention
Speakers
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Editor, Co.Exist, Fast Company Magazine
Morgan Clendaniel is the founding editor of Co.Exist, Fast Company’s website about world changing ideas and innovation, which launched in late 2011. Clendaniel has spent his career covering the rise in prominence of social entrepreneurship and responsible business, following the innovators and organizations that are making social good a vital component of the business world.
Prior to Fast Company, Clendaniel was one of the founding editors of GOOD, and served as the Deputy Editor there for five years. During his tenure, the magazine was nominated for multiple National Magazine Awards, including a “Best Section” nomination for his work on the magazine’s infographics. He also served as the editorial director of the email newsletter Very Short List, and his work has appeared in numerous other publications.
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Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters,
BenetechJim is a serial tech and social entrepreneur who founded Tech Matters in 2018 to advance large-scale social impact using software and data. Jim and his team have created two new nonprofit tech enterprises, while also helping social good leaders on tech challenges. Aselo is designed to take crisis response helplines from the telephone era to the social media era, helping them better respond to the urgent needs of those in crisis. Terraso is a tech platform to being tools, knowledge and funding to community leaders building more regenerative local economies against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
Prior to founding Tech Matters, Jim was the founder and CEO of Benetech for nearly 30 years, delivering large-scale change in partnership with hundreds of organizations as part of social enterprises addressing education, disability, human rights, and the environment.
Jim is a MacArthur Fellow, a Skoll Awardee, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.
