Seth Flaxman is the co-founder of Democracy Works, which leverages web technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education. His first project, TurboVote.org, was created to dramatically simplify voter registration and voting by mail. He previously worked as a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In 2011, he was named one of Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in the field of law and policy.