Laura Seaman is Associate Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS, where she oversees the Digital Impact initiative and the Lab’s growing portfolio of research projects, fellowships, grants, and publications. The Lab investigates the challenges and opportunities for a thriving civil society in the digital age and engages researchers, practitioners and policymakers across four domains that shape digital civil society: technology, organizations, policy, and norms. Prior to joining the Lab Laura worked at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Asia Foundation, the University of Denver and UC Davis.