Murmuration
Murmuration

September 30th, 2026

MoreHuman

Life, Democracy, and Connection in the Age of AI

Date
September 30, 2026
Time
5:30–8:30 PM
Place
Artists For Humanity
Boston, MA
Explore the voices
USA TODAY

01 / About the event

What makes us more human?

A conversation about what we choose to preserve, renew, and make possible as artificial intelligence reshapes public life.

More Human brings together voices working across research, technology, journalism, education, and civic life. The evening centers a question larger than any tool: how do we strengthen human agency, democratic participation, and meaningful connection in a changing world?

02 / The conversation

Speakers

Portrait of Sarah Stamper

Sarah
Stamper

Chief Research Officer · Murmuration

Portrait of Mutale Nkonde

Mutale
Nkonde

Researcher at the Center of Digital Humanities at Cambridge University & Founder of AI for the People

Portrait of Abby Binder

Abby
Binder

Director of People & Partnerships · Civics Unplugged
Fellow at The Rithm Project

Portrait of Danielle Allen

Danielle
Allen

James Bryant Conant University Professor · Harvard University

Portrait of Susan Page

Susan
Page

Washington Bureau Chief · USA TODAY

03 / About Murmuration

Transforming America Into a Nation Where Everyone Thrives

Murmuration is a nonprofit that organizes a network of partners and equips them with the insights, tools, and services communities need to build and activate the power to transform America into a nation where everyone thrives.

Visit murmuration.org ↗

Sarah Stamper

Chief Research Officer · Murmuration

A neuroscientist with two decades of experience studying behavior, Sarah Stamper specializes in using data to understand how people experience their lives, their communities, and American civic life.

At Murmuration, she leads data scientists and researchers whose work helps partners understand, engage, and mobilize communities. As chief strategist of Murmuration’s Civic Listening Initiative, she leads research combining real-time public opinion measurement with longitudinal data. As of September 2026, the initiative has captured more than 750,000 voices across the country. She also writes State of Us, Murmuration’s Substack.

Before joining Murmuration, she led product and data science at Helm and research at the Art & Science Group, which partnered with schools, universities, and nonprofits on community engagement and long-term planning.

Mutale Nkonde

Researcher at the Center of Digital Humanities at Cambridge University & Founder of AI for the People

Mutale Nkonde is a researcher at the Center of Digital Humanities at Cambridge University and founder of AI for the People, a national non-profit that advocates responsible approaches to AI development.

As part of this work, she has taken part in advisory services to the Biden-Harris White House, Tik Tok and provided testimony at the United Nations. As well as holding fellowships at the Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society at Harvard University, the Digital Civic Society Lab at Stanford and at the Oxford Internet Institute, at which she is now affiliated.

Susan Page

Washington Bureau Chief · USA TODAY

Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY. She's covered 12 presidential campaigns and seven White House administrations, and she's interviewed the past 10 presidents. She is the best-selling author of biographies of Barbara Bush, Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Walters, and of "The Queen and Her Presidents," out in 2026. She moderated the 2020 vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. (Yes, that was the one with the fly.)

Abby Binder

Director of People & Partnerships · Civics Unplugged
Fellow · The Rithm Project

Abby works to strengthen community wellbeing by centering young people’s lived experiences—especially Gen Z’s digital-native perspective—in conversations about our collective future. With a background in developmental psychology and societal trends, she brings both research and lived experience to advancing intergenerational collaboration and providing young leaders with the support they need to create change.

As Director of People and Partnerships at Civics Unplugged, she guides young people as they find purposeful work and builds the partnerships that help them shape a future rooted in care, community, and connection.

Danielle Allen

James Bryant Conant University Professor · Harvard University

Danielle Allen directs the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School and the Democratic Knowledge Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A political philosopher and democracy advocate, she works at the intersection of AI and democracy, focusing on how emerging technologies can be governed to strengthen—rather than erode—self-government, and on renovating democratic institutions for the digital age.

She is the author of numerous books, including Our Declaration, Cuz, Justice by Means of Democracy, and most recently Radical Duke.