​This is an intimate conversation with Jessica Elefante, author of Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (including me). Part of All Tech Is Human's author series, this will be a casual conversation between Jessica and David Ryan Polgar (Founder of All Tech Is Human) about digital wellbeing, finding a sense of sanity and balance in a hectic media environment, and Jessica own unique career trajectory and complicated relationship with technology.

​This will be taking place in person, in the back room of Betaworks (Manhattan) for 25 participants to connect, learn, and ask questions.

​About Raising Hell, Living Well
Part cultural criticism, part rueful confessional, a reformed brand strategist brings to light the impact of influence on us and our society and offers an escape in this ironically persuasive case for not being so easily influenced anymore.

About Jess Elefante

​Jessica Elefante is an interdisciplinary writer, artist & tech critic at the heart of modernity & humanity.

Jessica’s writing works to open people’s eyes on the topics of technology, capitalism, influence, and motherhood and has appeared in The Guardian, Literary Hub, Huffington Post, Bustle, Simplify Magazine, the Dispatch, Whalebone Magazine and more. As the founder of acclaimed Folk Rebellion and a critic of today's culture, Elefante’s award-winning works shine a light on the untenability of our times and have been featured by Vogue, The Atlantic, Inc., Los Angeles Times, The Observer, Writer’s Digest, Vice, Paper Mag, Wired, and elsewhere. Her short documentary “What Day Is It?” was awarded semi-finalist of Flickers RIIFF and an Official Selection of Beverly Hills Film Festival and New York Shorts Film Festival, for its portrayal of a mother's perspective on the ever-shifting emotional and mental states of lockdown.

​About All Tech Is Human

​All Tech Is Human moves at the speed of tech while tackling the world's thorniest tech & society issues. With a network of over 50k individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia, our organization is committed to collective understanding, involvement, and action. Through our whole-of-ecosystem approach and three pillars of activities (community-building, educational resources, careers), All Tech Is Human surfaces important values, tensions, trade-offs, and best practices in order to co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. Noted activities include our curated gatherings (NYC, SF, DC, London), Slack community of over 12k members across 105 countries, our popular Responsible Tech Job Board, and our yearly Responsible Tech Guide that has defined the field and seeded the next generation of organizations and leaders.

​Our organization brings together expertise, a sandbox for solution-making, and a structure for socialization and mobilization.