In 2009, Goodstein founded Revolution Messaging, which would grow to become America’s leading progressive digital agency. With Revolution Messaging, he created infrastructure and new technology for different types of grassroots movements. His tech firm specialized in revolutionizing call, mobile, and online communications. Under his leadership the company was awarded Digital Agency of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants and Best Global Presidential Campaign by the European Association of Political Consultants, both in 2016.

Prior to launching his own firm, Goodstein was External Online Director for Obama for America, creating the 2008 campaign’s groundbreaking social networking, mobile and lifestyle marketing strategies; this was widely seen as the biggest, most effective grassroots organizing campaign of modern history, and a watershed moment for the use of digital technology in politics.

His ability to take on uniquely challenging projects has seen him assist national efforts on international campaigns, including several in Brazil, Canada, France, Iraq, Mexico, and Uruguay.

They include National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative, aimed at halting the decline in lion and other predator populations, the Pristine Seas project, which focuses on saving the last wild places in the ocean, and the Genographic Project, a landmark study that uses DNA as a tool to map how humans populated the planet. Prior to joining the National Geographic Society, Alex was a manager at A.T. Kearney, a management consulting firm, and served in the U.S. Army as an officer in a tank battalion based in Germany. Alex has been an integral part of the PopTech community and Fellows program for many years.

Nicholson is also an adjunct professor at NYU’s school of journalism and is on the programming committee for South by South West Interactive. For the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Nicholson has coached more than 3,000 scientists on communicating with colleagues, policy makers and the public.

During his 13 years there, WIRED garnered 21 National Magazine Award nominations and won eight. His 2009 article “Why Things Fail” won the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and his piece “The Good Enough Revolution” was declared by The New York Times Magazine as one of the most important big ideas of the year.

In his spare time, he co-curates the annual PopTech ideas conference in Camden, Maine. Just so you know though, he’d still rather be in the mountains fly fishing.

In the early 90s to early 2000, he founded non-profits that work with children and with public school reforms in India. Since 2002 he has started several social enterprises and for profit companies in the service sector and manufacturing. He has a keen interest in applying technology to solve social problems.

As a member of the senior leadership team at PopTech she has gained a deep and wide-ranging know-how in non-profit management, events production, digital content strategy, and storytelling. A consummate team player, Beth connects the dots wherever and whenever she can.

In addition to her work at PopTech, Beth is a consultant on a number of global-facing projects that leverage the power of communications to create impact. She also applies her formidable skillset by mentoring fellow storytellers and teaching at the college level.

Beth wants a more beautiful, healthy, kind, green, and just world. That’s not too much to ask, is it?

When not busy overseeing all things PopTech, Janet is active in the fitness community, and enjoys the beach and spending time with her family.

Her tenure at PopTech began with the establishment of the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows programs, which are dedicated to identifying and training promising innovators and scientists. Much of PopTech’s work explores the leveraging of technology and other disruptive channels to mitigate challenges confronting humanity. Leetha has a diverse background in strategic development and has advised and served on the boards of numerous organizations and agencies. She is a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, based in the U.K. Leetha splits her time between Washington, DC and midcoast Maine where she lives on a small farm with her family.

Katherine is author of The Nature of Investing, and serves on the boards of Last Mile Health, the Omega Institute, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Harvard Divinity School Dean’s Council. She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Wellesley College, and is a CFA charter holder. Her closest neighbors in Massachusetts are several thousand honeybees.

Freya’s diverse experience has given her an insider’s perspective on the trials and tribulations of incorporating sustainability into a business. In the course of persuading clients to try fresh, sometimes counter-intuitive approaches, Freya has built up a wealth of data on the business case for sustainability and an instinctive sense of what works and what doesn’t.

Freya is best known for her work in making sustainability relevant to mainstream audiences. She captured many of her learnings in her 2015 book, Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses, which has been profiled in The Economist, Fortune and Forbes. Her work has also been featured in the Financial Times, Newsweek and even The Onion. Freya lives in New York with her husband and kids and is committed to helping move sustainable business, behaviors and brands into the mainstream.