Three questions with Millions of Conversations founder Samar Ali
Nashville nonprofit founder talks innovating ways to unite people as divides run deep
By Lena Anthony
Samar Ali is the founder of Millions of Conversations, a Nashville-based nonprofit that started in 2017 to address America’s disinformation-fueled polarization problem. It does this through various means, including listening, respectful engagement, programming, research, media and storytelling campaigns, and grassroots community-building. All this work centers around bringing Americans together through common values for a shared future.
A “peace entrepreneur” who previously served as a White House Fellow under then-President Barack Obama and assistant commissioner of economic development for Tennessee under then-Gov. Bill Haslam, Ali is also a political science and law research professor at Vanderbilt University.
