Susannah Vila

Susannah consults for civil society on how best to drive social change with new technologies. At present, she is the strategist for CitiVox, a technology company reinventing the way citizens build advocacy campaigns. She’s also a co-founder of the engine room —- an organization that investigates and supports wired social movements — and a board member of The Fledgling Fund, which builds outreach campaigns around social issue documentary films. Previously, Susannah identified, built and managed relationships with grassroots campaigners from over 30 countries for Movements.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, connecting and supporting youth activists who use new media to organize for social change. Susannah has a masters from Columbia University and a bachelors from New York University in Political Science.