Lydia Laurenson

Lydia Laurenson is a digital strategist, user researcher, writer, and editor — she's done lots of digital R&D. She has worked with an array of social platforms, publications, and web projects, and has spoken at venues from Stanford to SXSW.

Lydia cares about:
• Media product design, and improving the current media landscape;
• Meaningful media, and creating it in a sustainable way;
• Connecting and communicating across cultural and other divides;
• and getting important information out into the world, both through technical strategies and content strategies.

Lydia's writing about culture, technology, identity, and business has appeared in publications like Vice, The Harvard Business Review, and The Atlantic (she has been called a "reporter on the future of the human heart and mind"). She has worked with organizations like News Deeply (an award-winning journalism & technology company described as "the Future of News" by TIME Magazine), and she currently edits the magazine for The Battery (a Silicon Valley club devoted to arts, culture, and philanthropy).

Lydia also served in the U.S. Peace Corps, working with the HIV program in Swaziland, Africa.

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