Jenny Stefanotti
Founder, Steward, and Curator of Denizen
Jenny Stefanotti
Founder, Steward, and Curator of Denizen
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor
2024 - Current
North Star's mission is to center psychedelic wisdom into psychedelic business, to not only radically improve mental health, but to develop the business practices that can serve as guiding lights in the needed transformation of business as a whole.
Founding Advisor
2023
The Modern Family Institute seeks to bring about a world where families and relationships are defined by their function, not their form. Our vision is to improve relational, mental, and physical wellbeing by ensuring everyone has access to resources and systems of care supporting their unique family and relationship structures. Our research drives systemic changes in legal, financial, housing, and social systems through supporting media representation, policy reform, and professional practices that help people build and sustain flourishing communities of care.
Founder / Steward
2020
Denizen is both a media platform and a community. As a collective, we recognize the need to redesign the beliefs, values, and institutions underpinning modern society. Amongst us are systems change leaders at the helm of organizations such as the Center for Humane Technology, Zebra’s Unite, Purpose, Mobius, Esalen, the Consilience Project, the Post Growth Institute, the Economic Security Project, One Project, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Denizen builds collective wisdom via shared learning. Through thoughtful civic discourse, we make sense of the current times and develop a shared strategic vision for a more equitable, regenerative future. We convene regularly to explore topics related to economics, democracy and policy, technology and society, culture, spirituality and consciousness, and systemic oppression. We are one of the leading clubs on Clubhouse in both Economics and Social Issues, with a reach of over 85k. Our inquiry is shared with a larger audience on the Denizen podcast. Learn more about us and subscribe to our newsletter at www.becomingdenizen.com
Member Board Of Directors
2017
Fourth Sector Group is leading a global effort to formally develop a fourth, for benefit sector of the economy around the world.
Advisor
2019
Momentum (formerly Sparrow) is a charitable giving intermediary aligning an understanding of individual preferences with effective altruism. Sparrow ties giving opportunities to everyday activities such as exercise, dining out, and filling your tank with gasoline. I advise Sparrow in numerous capacities including product strategy, business development, fundraising, and building the company's competence in human centered design.
Advisor
2021 - 2024
The Consilience Project was founded in order to explore and address some of the profound challenges facing public sensemaking at a time of rapid technological change.
Advisor
2020 - 2021
Since 1983, BFI has served the international network of Fuller-inspired innovators through the maintenance of a comprehensive Information Clearinghouse on R.B Fuller, including a detailed inventory of the practices and principles informing Fuller’s approach to design innovation; articles featuring contemporary applications of Fuller’s approach published in BFI’s website, monthly email newsletter, and on-line books; audio and video archives; and Dymaxion Artifacts, BFI’s online store featuring educational tools.
Member, Board of Directors
2016 - 2021
Ushahidi is a non-profit technology company that builds open source platforms to help citizens, journalists, organizations, governments, and others gather, manage, analyze, and visualize crowdsourced data. Our tools have been used by tens of thousands of individuals and organizations fighting for social causes in over 159 countries.
Founder / Co-lead
2020 - 2020
Eleven Three was a sprint initiative that intermediated between the early adopter base of Clubhouse and organizations working on the front lines of the presidential election. A non-partisan effort, we focused on getting out the vote, election integrity, and supporting American democratic institutions. A few notable achievements: - Conceived and executed a creative campaign to counter misinformation during the time it took to count votes after Election Day. Anchored by Yves Behar, Tycho, and Oliver Jeffers, the campaign galvanized hundreds of artists to create original art carrying the core message, "Count Every Vote." The art and messaging was used by major influencers on social media, reaching hundreds of millions of users. - Established the infrastructure to mass mobilize American society in the face of an attempted coup: expanded a business network of over 1k companies including major US corporations, connected the major business network to organizations with experience in coup resistance from around the world, and leveraged social media reach to establish direct ties between individuals and the movement leadership. - Established a 200 person volunteer organization to adapt to the dynamic needs of the election in the six weeks prior to election day through mid December's electoral college meeting.
Founder / Principal
2013 - 2020
Dent is a strategic consultancy integrating traditional management consulting, design thinking, and social impact. Areas of practice include incubation of mission driven for and nonprofit ventures; philanthropic strategies for companies, foundations, and high net worth individuals; movement building and strategy; and policy and market regulation. Sample project work: Buckminster Fuller Institute Refined BFI's core strategy: revised its vision and mission statements, developed a strategic framework and narrative connecting Fuller's core ideas to the current times. Engendered a foundational competence in human centered design mindsets and methods, built a baseline understanding of core user needs and insights. Prominent Silicon Valley High Net Worth Individual Defined personal giving objectives and overall philanthropic approach. Developed strategies across multiple thematic areas. Assessed and made recommendations for grant opportunities. One Project (nonprofit) Developed the foundational strategy for the organization. Established relationships with other non profits, foundations, investors, and entrepreneurs in the ecosystem. Created an initial org structure and budget. Drove hiring for a long term leader. President's Office of Mexico Advised the President's office on Agentes de Innovaction, a fellowship program designed to leverage successful social entrepreneurs to innovate across government. Supported the launch of the program and advised individual teams across health, education, security, social programs, and economic development. mySociety (civic tech nonprofit) Developed and drove a design driven approach to localize mySociety's freedom of information platform in Liberia, in partnership with the iLab, a local tech hub. Simultaneously trained the mySociety and iLab teams on design methods while leading the design sprint.