Mer Joyce

Mer (pronounced “mair,” pronouns she/her) is the Founder and Principal of Do Big Good (www.dobiggood.com), a Seattle-based consulting firm helping private, public, and social sector clients make inclusive decisions with their stakeholders and communities. Mer has committed her life to implementing innovative methods of social change. She was New Media Operations Manager for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, is the editor of the book Digital Activism Decoded, and managed the creation of a first-of-its-kind international digital activism data set as a Graduate Research Fellow of the National Science Foundation. Mer has collaborated with nonprofits, foundations, think tanks, and firms in North America, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, including the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, the Open Government Partnership, Microsoft, and Google. Her graduate studies in Public Policy and Communication and undergraduate studies in History and Africana Studies were at the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Washington, Vassar, and the University of Ghana. Having also lived in Morocco, Chile, and India, Mer now lives in Seattle, where she enjoys biking and intentional communities.