Nashville nonprofit founder talks innovating ways to unite people as divides run deep
By Lena Anthony
Samar Ali is the founder of Millions of Conversations, a Nashville-based nonprofit that started in 2017 to address America’s disinformation-fueled polarization problem. It does this through various means, including listening, respectful engagement, programming, research, media and storytelling campaigns, and grassroots community-building. All this work centers around bringing Americans together through common values for a shared future.
A “peace entrepreneur” who previously served as a White House Fellow under then-President Barack Obama and assistant commissioner of economic development for Tennessee under then-Gov. Bill Haslam, Ali is also a political science and law research professor at Vanderbilt University.
