About PopVox

POPVOX  is an online advocacy platform that meshes real-time legislative data with users’ personal stories and sentiment. POPVOX curates and delivers public input in a format tailored to actionable policy decisions and empowers users to leverage their expertise and numbers.  POPVOXPro provides a suite of professional advocacy tools for organizations of any size to mount a significant legislative campaign with the power of targeted grassroots action.  POPVOXNation establishes a civic social network allowing individuals to manage and maintain their online civic profile, build their reputation, organize their friends, and have meaningful impact.

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Marci Harris 

Cofounder & CEO
POPVOX

Marci Harris, cofounder and CEO of POPVOX, likes to say that “her first startup was a town." In 2004, an F4 tornado struck her town of Jackson, Tennessee, the night before an election for which she was running the campaign of the incumbent mayor. Directed to "find out what people need and get it," she became the town’s Tornado recovery coordinator for the long process that followed. Her first interaction with federal agencies and Congress was as an advocate for thousands who lost homes and businesses. This taste of public service led her to law school and eventually to the LLM program at American University in Washington, DC. In 2007, she became tax, trade, and health counsel to a senior ways and means member and led committee efforts on Medicare program integrity and transparency. She left Capitol Hill in February 2010 to build POPVOX, which won the SxSW BizSpark Accelerator startup competition in 2011. Harris is a recipient of a 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Award and was named #13 of the "Top 100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company magazine.

Presenting June 14, 2012