Is it possible to take the best of New England's face-to-face town hall meetings, where neighbors gather to debate and decide on critical local issues, and translate that conversation into an online community? That's the question explored on this call with Conor White-Sullivan, who co-founded Localocracy to do just that while he was still a college student at UMASS-Amherst. Now the director of editorial technology for the Huffington Post, White-Sullivan was also the youngest speaker to ever appear at PdF (in 2010).

Conor White-Sullivan, always an advocate of grassroots democracy and bootstrapped solutions, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Localocracy, an online town common for local civic engagement. Conor founded Localocracy in 2008 and led the company through two rounds of prize funding through the UMass Amherst Innovation Challenge. He's been named a Champion of Change by the White House, and has spoken at TEDxBoston, the Personal Democracy Forum, the Aspen Institutes's Forum on Communication and Society, and the New York Tech Meetup. He describes himself as a Radical Moderate, rides a KLR 650 motorcycle, and plays bass guitar.