Eli Pariser

Welcome Eli Pariser to the Civic Hall’s Stage!

Eli Pariser is co-founder and co-director of New_Public, a community and experimentation hub for digital public spaces. He’s been an author, activist, and entrepreneur focused on how to make technology and media serve democracy. In 2004, at 23, he became Executive Director of MoveOn.org, where he helped pioneer the practice of online citizen engagement. In 2006, he co-founded Avaaz, now the world’s largest citizen’s organization. His bestselling 2011 book The Filter Bubble introduced the term to the lexicon. And Upworthy, the media startup he co-founded in 2012, reached hundreds of millions of visitors with civically important content. Now his work is focused on bringing together community entrepreneurs, researchers, engineers, and designers to envision, architect and scale digital public spaces.

🎵 Performance by Arthur Larin

Arthur Larin is a Harlem-based singer/songwriter whose raw songwriting comes to life through the simplicity of voice and guitar. He regularly performs at the supper club Prohibition, and has been featured at Otto’s Shrunken Head, The Lost & Found, and Brooklyn Music Kitchen. In Summer 2023, he was an artist-in-residence at The Sable Project in Stockbridge, VT.

Offstage, Arthur produces singer/songwriter showcases at Young Ethel’s in Park Slope, creating space for fellow musicians. By day, he runs the branding and web design studio Fixate. He also enjoys running, cycling, and looking at trees.