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About
Project Liberty

Our Story


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Founded in 2019 by civic entrepreneur Frank McCourt, Project Liberty is building a people-centered digital future in the age of AI. We advance this mission through three interdependent strategies: building world-class digital infrastructure centered on people, designing sustainable data governance models, shaping smarter policy, and mobilizing a movement for change.

Our work began with a new protocol to provide the shared digital rails for an open, interoperable web. We started with infrastructure because common standards for identity and connection are a prerequisite for restoring individuals’ control of their own data. That work provides the foundation for efforts to give people more agency over their digital identities and relationships, avoid platform lock-in, and manage our interactions with AI agents.

Leadership Team


Project Liberty Leadership

Project Liberty Advisors


Project Liberty Advisors

  • Angela Glover Blackwell headshot

    Angela Glover Blackwell

    Founder in Residence, PolicyLink

  • Dr. John DeGioia headshot

    Dr. John DeGioia

    Former President, Georgetown University

  • Todd Golub, M.D. headshot

    Todd Golub, M.D.

    Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

  • Eric Liu headshot

    Eric Liu

    Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

  • Dorcas Muthoni headshot

    Dorcas Muthoni

    Founder, OPENWORLD LTD

  • Dr. Dava Newman headshot

    Dr. Dava Newman

    Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics Chair MIT

  • Headshot of Alexis Ohanian, Founder 776

    Alexis Ohanian

    Founder of Seven Seven Six

  • Jeremy Heimans headshot

    Jeremy Heimans

    Co-founder & Chairman, Purpose


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