Jennifer Brandel
CEO
Hearken, Democracy SOS
About Jennifer Brandel
Jennifer Brandel is a serial entrepreneur working between industries to address the problem: how to design systems that listen, respond and evolve with their stakeholders. Her curiosity and listening approach has yielded change that shifts sectors toward a co-creative paradigm. She is co-founder of Hearken, Zebras Unite, Civic Exchange Chicago, Election SOS, Democracy SOS, Advancing Democracy, The Democracy Toolkit and WBEZ’s Curious City. Brandel received the Media Changemaker Prize, was named one of 30 World-Changing Women in Conscious Business, is a Columbia Sulzberger Fellow, an RSA Fellow, a member of the Guild of Future Architects and the National Civic Collaboratory.
