Designing for a quiet online conversation: Greg Dorsainville and Alvin Chang at TEDxFoggyBottom

Greg Dorsainville and Alvin Chang, two of the co-founders of The Listserve, describe The Listserve's journey and illustrate the power of a single email.

Greg Dorsainville has collaborated on wildly disparate projects since leaving Harvard with a degree in biochemistry. As well as co-founding the internet experiment the Listserve with friends from the NYU ITP masters program, he is a member of NYU Langone Medical Center's Institute for Innovation in Medical Education. His passion surfaces when understanding science communication, content and visual design. There is a notch in his heart for the technology that brings us awe, engagement, teaches us new things, changes our worlds and make us want to be better people.

Alvin Chang co-created The Listserve and is currently data editor at the Connecticut Mirror, a non-profit news startup. Previously, he told interactive stories at the Boston Globe, wrote about hockey for ESPN and attended NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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