Liz Barry
Elizabeth "Liz" Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov, a research-and-infrastructure nonprofit dedicated to creating governance primitives for the digital era. Metagov builds modular, composable systems and communities that help shape how institutions emerge, adapt, and self-govern in sociotechnical settings. Previously, she served as global Head of Partnerships at The Computational Democracy Project, the 501(c)3 organization she co-founded 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 the founders of g0v invited her to Taiwan during 2014's Sunflower Revolution, which led to her introducing vTaiwan and Audrey Tang to the international community in the 2016 piece for Civicist titled "vTaiwan: Public Partic