Elizabeth "Liz" Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov, a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory advancing collective self-governance in a digital age. By providing the scaffolding (tools, protocols, semantics, norms) necessary for emergent institutional design, Metagov aims to reduce the friction of upgrading or creating new organizations that are “alive” — i.e. that can adapt, incorporate feedback, and manage power. She co-founded the Computational Democracy Project with the creators of Polis. She witnessed Taiwan’s Sunflower Revolution in person, then introduced Audrey Tang to the international community in the 2016 piece "vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy." Her many initiatives have tuned human-environment-technology relationships by applying design to community organizing, science to environmental justice, and math to democracy. More at lizbarry.net.

mai is an organizer and writer focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy. They are a Senior Organizer with DWeb and a Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network. They are a co-founder and editor of COMPOST, an online magazine about and for the digital commons. Their former projects and employers include the Oakland Public Library, Public Citizen, Shareable, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.