Marci Harris is co-founder and CEO of POPVOX an online platform for legislative information, civic engagement, and tools for policymakers. A former Congressional staffer and lawyer, Marci says that her “first startup was a town,” as she led Jackson, Tennessee’s rebuilding efforts following a 2003 tornado. She serves on the boards of People-Centered Internet and LaunchTN. In 2018, she led the PCI’s work on “Digital Puerto Rico” policy recommendations for the island’s post-hurricane Recovery Plan.
She was named a “Top 100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company (2012), and has been a fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democracy (2016), New America California(2017), and is an affiliated scholar with the CITRIS Policy Lab at UC Berkeley. She holds a B.A. from Franklin University Lugano, Switzerland, a J.D. from the University of Memphis and an LL.M. from the American University Washington College of Law.