Tayler has a background in digital advertising where she ran growth strategy for eCommerce brands, progressive NGOs/political campaigns, and art museums. At Harmony Labs, she hopes to bridge her experience in data-driven tech with her passion for writing and training in philosophy. She believes storytelling is our most important tool for building shared meaning and asking questions about systems of belief. When not at work, Tayler is usually writing short fiction, camping in a truck, solo traveling, watercoloring, and having fever dreams at hot yoga.

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Tayler B.

Communications Specialist

The Harmony Labs Director of Science, Riki comes to the team with an extensive background in data science for social good. Most known for her work on narrative research projects like [Story at Scale](https://www.storyatscale.org/) and the [Peoria Project](https://thepeoriaproject.org/), Riki has joined Harmony Labs to help researchers connect artists to the insights they need about their audiences. Riki holds a PhD from Northwestern University in Social Psychology but only because data science wasn’t invented yet when she was being educated.



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Riki Conrey

 Science Director

Joy J. has over a decade of experience across operations, client, and project management, ranging from helping Georgia residents connect with appropriate attorneys based on their legal issues to managing the operations of one of the highest producing residential real estate sales teams in New York City. At Harmony, Joy works across the organization to manage all facets of project management and oversees Harmony Labs’ annotation team. An Atlanta native, Joy spends her free time traveling, rock climbing indoors and out, and drinking copious amounts of iced coffee year round.


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Joy J.

Project Manager

Kate brings more than 10 years of experience nurturing productive and positive work environments across a variety of industries. She began her career working in hospitality where she first applied a human-centered approach to managing teams and learned the importance of anticipating the needs of those you serve; spent eight years working in the NYC Mayor’s Office as a Chief of Staff; and most recently supported a philanthropic studio as Deputy Director for Program Management. Her career has focused on optimizing teams, ensuring effective and strategic deployment of resources, streamlining and managing day-to-day operations, and facilitating the highest level of performance and accountability across dynamic, multi-disciplinary teams. As lover of food, Kate is a gastronome holding a Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy, and a Certificate in the Culinary Arts, both from Boston University. Her passion for food, much like her philosophy of life, lies in all it can do to connect, nurture, and grow a community.  

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Kate Gouin

Chief of Staff

H Paul Johnson has spent most of his career helping mission-driven brands increase their impact. Before joining Harmony Labs, Paul led the marketing and media efforts at the [Mozilla Foundation](https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/), rallying millions of people to help protect the open Internet as a global public resource. Previously, he spent over a decade at [CREDO](http://www.credomobile.com/) where he led the marketing acquisition team and the integration of brand and activism efforts. In his free time, he and his wife are raising two kids — one a teenager, the other an infant — and sneaking off with friends to find adventure in the woods, on the beach or just about anywhere there’s live music.

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H Paul Johnson

Marketing & Communications Director

Mena is a software engineer with a background in child welfare social work. She began her engineering career at Numerator working on a data analytics platform that helped brands understand their consumers in a holistic way. At Harmony Labs, she hopes to combine her coding skills with her passion for helping people. In her free time, Mena enjoys knitting, sewing, baking, and playing video games.

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Mena Adams

Software Engineer

Mercedes Coyle is a Software Engineer with a range of experience building resilient and scalable systems. She is an insatiably curious lifelong learner who tends to acquire at least 3 books on every new subject. Prior to Harmony Labs, she helped architect and scale infrastructure providing visual tools for developers at [Percy](https://percy.io/), and built user-focused monitoring system at [Sensu](https://sensu.io/). Her career has also involved building and monitoring data pipelines and supporting a 1-1 laptop program at a high school in San Francisco. In her free time, she can be found with a camera on a hiking trail, or tending to chickens and plants on her farm in Oregon.


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Mercedes Coyle

 Lead Software Engineer

Sem Devillart is a cultural analyst and strategist focused on visual and online culture. For the last fifteen years, she has collaborated with top organizations on innovative methods to turn cultural signals into high-value intelligence, media content, products and business models. Recently, Sem worked on the start up of a responsive, data driven creative agency at [Omnicom](http://www.omnicomgroup.com/). Sem is a founding faculty member of the [Masters Branding Program](http://branding.sva.edu/) at the [School of Visual Arts](http://www.sva.edu/) in New York. She studied semiotics, design and comparative religion in Tuebingen and Milan and grew up on three continents, between seven languages . . . early training in spotting hidden patterns in what's happening. 



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Sem Devillart

Cultural Analyst

Simone Van Taylor seeks to understand human behavior and persuasion by studying social neuroscience and media systems. Currently, she is Harmony Labs' inaugural Research Network Program Associate, a job that entails her two favorite things: collaborating with academics across disciplines, and learning about new scientific discoveries every day. Previously, Simone worked at an ER, a [social neuroscience lab](http://www.psych.nyu.edu/vanbavel/lab/index.html) at NYU, and an applied-neuroscience startup. When not geeking out over scientific insights, Simone can be found hitting the courts with her shuffleboard team, walking puppies around Prospect Park, and conducting an ongoing study of NYC’s best fried chicken.


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Simone Van Taylor

Data Scientist

Jon has a track record of harnessing research and data analytics to enable organizations to meet impact goals. Previously, he was the Senior Director of Data Analytics and Applied Research at A/B Partners, where he integrated media impact measurement into communications strategy. Before that, he developed the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management with Director Paul Romer, and started his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as part of their Research Group. He holds an MBA from NYU with concentrations in finance, economics, and social innovation and impact and a BS from Wittenberg University with majors in mathematics and economics and a minor in computational science. When not nerding out on data science, Jon can be found running and biking around upper manhattan, enjoying classical music concerts, baking sweet treats, or haunting new and used bookstores for his next great read.


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Jon Stewart

Lead Data Scientist

Vipassana is a Data Scientist at Harmony Labs and hopes her role will help facilitate a future with a public interest internet. She has worked as a sustainable transportation researcher, math teacher to middle-schoolers, and started her career as a software engineer. She has a Master’s degree in Applied Urban Informatics from NYU. When not working, she can be found reading, exploring the neighborhoods of NYC, journaling, biking to the ends for Brooklyn to see birds, meditating, and generally enjoying this life.


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Vipassana Vijayarangan

Amy Sewell brings to Harmony Labs over 30 years' experience in multiple facets of business, management, and media making. She has been operations manager at [Women Make Movies](http://www.wmm.com/), and director of communications and development for [Urban Dove](http://urbandove.org/), in addition to holding various positions in the publishing sector. Amy is a writer and a producer, best known for her award-winning, audience-favorite feature documentary [Mad Hot Ballroom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Hot_Ballroom) and, more recently, the documentary short [Good Muslim Girls](http://www.unaff.org/2015/f_good.html). Among the books Amy has published are [The Mad Hot Adventures of an Unlikely Documentary Filmmaker](https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Adventures-Unlikely-Documentary-Filmmaker/dp/1401303188) and [She's Out There! The Next Generation of Presidential Candidates](https://www.amazon.com/Shes-Out-There-Generation-Presidential/dp/0981636845). Amy serves on the board of [Reel Works Teen Filmmaking](http://www.reelworks.org/) and is a member of [NYWIFT](http://www.nywift.org/), [WGA-West](http://www.wga.org/) and [The Gotham](https://thegotham.org/) (formerly IFP).  She has a BA from University of Michigan and an MBA from Schiller International University. Painting, poker, sailing,  backpacking, watching college sports with the hubby, and witnessing her 20+ something twin daughters soar joyously round out her days.

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Amy Sewell

Operations Director

Building things with software has always been Ricardo's passion ever since he taught himself to code as a kid. As a software engineer he has built tech in the telecom space, digital goods e-commerce and, more recently, helped launch SaaS startups. In his spare time he enjoys playing soccer, watching or reading mostly sci-fi stories, and working on DIY projects. He is living his best life with his wife raising their kids in Ohio.


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Ricardo Solano

Senior Software Engineer

Justin Smith is a full-stack engineer, but it hasn't always been that way. In past lives, he has worked as an architect, a 3D animator, a multi-media artist, and a UX designer. Recently, he has built tech for U.S. presidential campaigns, international NGOs, mission-driven social impact organizations, and several liberal arts colleges and research institutions. When he is not designing UIs or writing JavaScript, he and his wife can be found at the Cleveland Museum of Art, at a concert (from heavy metal to opera), traveling the world, or restoring their century home near the shores of Lake Erie.

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Justin Smith

Engineering Director

Elsie has spent her career as a thought leader working at the intersection of strategy consulting, innovation and behavioral sciences. She has partnered with numerous organizations, such as Google, IBM, LinkedIn, Project Regeneration with Paul Hawken, and MoMA, to redefine their purpose and align business, brand and comms strategy with the vision for the future they want to create. Prior to Harmony, Elsie was Head of Strategy for AGO, a nonprofit agency accelerating the human rights and climate justice movements through a combination of systems design, network weaving, and strategy. She’s also served as Strategy Director at co:collective, a creative and strategic transformation consultancy. Elsie’s work and life are grounded in honoring our interdependence and in seeking out wonder and joy from the depths of the ocean to the heights of the Himalayas.

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Riki Conrey

Joy J.

Kate Gouin

H Paul Johnson

Mena Adams

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Sem Devillart

Simone Van Taylor

Jon Stewart

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