Ben Rattray

"My PoliSci studies formed the foundation of the concept of Change.org: democracies suffer from the structural problem of concentrated vs. diffuse interests to the detriment of the public good, and by lowering the barriers to collective action we aim to yield policy outcomes that better reflect the public rather than private interest."

Founder and CEO of Change.org, a social change platform with 150 million users taking global action on the social issues they care about, funded by the founders of LinkedIn, eBay, and Twitter.