David Jay

David Jay is an activist, organizer and software developer who focuses on building social movements both online and offline. David is the founder of the world’s first and largest asexual community, asexuality.org, where he has worked for over 15 years to give hundreds of thousands of people a safe space to openly explore their identity. His work has been featured on CNN, the London Times, and in the feature-length documentary (A)sexual. David’s passion for building community online has led him to build numerous systems that promote better online dialogue: from improving communication between research scientists to improving comments on news articles as a member of Mozilla’s Coral Project. As the CEO of Nametag, David works with organizations such as Planned Parenthood to create emotionally safe, private chat spaces for vulnerable populations.

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