Darryl Holliday is co-founder and partner of Commoner Company. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

In 2019, Darryl orchestrated the development of the award-winning documenters.org platform and strategic expansion of the Documenters Network to its first 11 cities—training thousands of people to engage their local government, and paying out more than $1 million directly to local residents in the process. Together with his team he helped re-invigorate the participatory media landscape and train thousands of people to engage their local government. The culmination of these endeavors was celebrated with the $10 million Stronger Democracy Award.

In 2015 Darryl co-founded City Bureau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning civic media lab based on Chicago's South Side where, as Co-Executive Director of National Impact, he helped build the organization from volunteer passion project to an institution with a $4 million annual budget and more than two dozen employees.

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