Liz Barry is a founding member of the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science where, as director of community development, she guides the interplay between place-based organizing and distributed peer production. She speaks internationally on tuning human-environment-technology relationships and collaboration at scale. She is a nobody .
Elizabeth Barry serves as Head of Partnerships at The Computational Democracy Project, the 501(c)3 organization she established with the creators of the Polis technology to steward its open source code and methods. Elizabeth works with facilitators, social movements, civil society organizations, journalists, indigenous nations, democratic governments both young and old, and peacebuilders to implement "listening at scale." The collaboration began when her presence at Taiwan's 2014 Sunflower Revolution and su
Her large-scale facilitation skills were developed and honed through listening to ~100,000 strangers on the sidewalks of New York City and across the United States with a sign that said "Talk To Me" and a couple of lawn chairs. Her large-scale coordination skills were tested in global participatory science projects. In response to urban tree death rates and the lack of support for tree stewards caring for their patch of the urban forest, she co-founded TreeKIT. With TreeKIT, she developed an accessible meth