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Lucy Bernholz

Lucy Bernholz is the director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She writes extensively on philanthropy, technology, and policy, and she recently edited the volume Digital Technology and Democratic Theory. icon

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