Ari Wallach

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Ari Wallach
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Born1974 (age 51–52)
EducationNorthgate High School (Walnut Creek, California)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley Education, BA, Honors, Peace and Conflict Studies; Inter/Intra-national Psychodynamic Conflict Analysis and Resolution (1993-1997)
OccupationsFounder, Longpath Labs;[1] lecturer
SpouseSharon Goldman Wallach (3 children)[2]
Websitewww.Longpath.org

Ari Wallach (born 1974) is an American futurist. He is the founder of an initiative called Longpath.[3] He also founded Synthesis Corp, a consulting initiative.[4]

Early life and education

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Wallach was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. His father was Raul Wallach, a Polish Holocaust survivor and a member of the Jewish underground during World War II. Wallach was raised in San Francisco Bay Area. Wallach studied Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.[5]

Career

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Wallach's career has ranged from work in media, government, and various creative fields. He has worked with the Democratic National Committee, Clinton/Gore 96, and the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC.[5]

He is the founding director of INFORUM, a non-partisan public affairs forum for young people.[6][when?] He later founded re:think media, a producer of public affairs content, and served as Vice President of Seed Media Group from 2006 to 2008.[7] In 2008, Wallach founded The Great Schlep — the viral GOTV campaign that mobilized young Jewish voters for Obama in 2008.[8] The campaign received over 342 million global media impressions and engaged over 25,000 volunteers.[9]

In 2008, he founded Synthesis Corp., a consultancy that works with governments, NGOs, foundations, and corporations to drive innovation, rethink business models, and improve organizational performance.[10] Synthesis is working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to develop UNHCR labs aimed at enhancing innovation and improving tools and processes to better serve people of concern.[11][when?]

He sits on the boards of 70 Faces Media,[12] blankonblank.org,[13] and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.[14] He is also an advisory board member of the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley.[15] He was a lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University on the topics of innovation, the future of governance and public policy.[16][when?]

In November 2015, Fast Company magazine launched "Fast Company Futures with Ari Wallach", an initiative to bring together people from business, technology, policy, and culture sectors.[17]

In April 2024, Wallach hosted a six-part documentary on PBS called "A Brief History of the Future".[18][19]

References

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