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 Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.
After starting two successful machine learning companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built tools which help people with disabilities read independently and human rights groups document and analyze abuses.
His current nonprofit projects at Tech Matters include Aselo, a shared modern contact center for the crisis response field, and Terraso, a platform to bring better tools and more funding to locally-led sustainability initiatives to respond to climate change.
