Kristin Hansen
@kristinjhansen
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Living in Silicon Valley, raising two great kids, and taking a "civic sabbatical" from my tech career. Working on political campaigns and fixing democracy. 🇺🇸
Menlo Park, CA
Joined March 2015
Please join @civichealthproj in #WeavingCommunity during crisis. This experience can either drive us apart, or it can drive us together. Connect, converse, and care for your neighbors because we’re #InThisTogether! https://t.co/ZMspxx0Qi7
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Here's the project that's taking a lot of my time these days ... launching an EdTech / CivicTech startup called Mismatch! Students Meet Their Political "Other" Using Mismatch by AllSides
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Our current, polarized political landscape is reverberating through our classrooms. Today's students are tomorrow's leaders, and we are counting on them to forge a more positive path that is less...
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I met Josh at #unrigsummit in March ... this is an important book and message! It's time to reverse voter suppression and disenfranchisement across the U.S. We need to clean things up before 2020.
Today's the day! Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting, is now available!
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Great evening at #UnrigSummit with a free screening of the new movie Dark Money (not based on Jane Mayer’s book) which looks at the battle for transparency in campaign funding in Montana. Panel with Rep. Jon Sarbanes and FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub.
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Looking for an easy, impactful way to help migrant families seeking asylum in the U.S? A San Diego-based family migrant shelter managed by Jewish Family Services (JFS) maintains a wish list of supplies on Amazon:
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I had the privilege of moderating a panel in SF with John Gable, CEO of @AllSides and Joan Blades, Founder of Living Room Conversations @LivingRoomConvo - let's come together as a country to bridge our partisan divides!
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Check out my latest blog post! Bridging the partisan divide: Our country’s challenge and opportunity
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In June 2018, I left my tech job and took a sabbatical in order to dedicate myself to understanding questions that had plagued me (and many other progressives) for the past eighteen months. How had...
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#WeAreStillIn forum getting underway in San Francisco - exciting and inspiring speaker line up! Sending a message that most Americans - cities, states, companies, schools, faith communities, tribes, and individual citizens believe in pursuing the goals of the Paris agreement.
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#GCASresilience conference bringing together private, public, and non-profit sectors to explore climate resilience strategies as a critical counterpart to climate mitigation. Key speakers - Mary Robinson #climatejustice and Johan Rockstrom #climateresilienceproject
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Great deep dive panel on container adoption at OpenStack Silicon Valley #OSSV15 .... Google, Microsoft, DirectTV http://t.co/chf2Plablh
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So many amazing speakers and inspiring people at Stanford Africa Business Forum #StanfordABF
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Excited to be @ Stanford Africa Business Forum, sharing Bead for Life's Ignite 1 Million campaign for Street Business School! #StanfordABF
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