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Shannon Farley

Fast Forward
Executive Director
Shannon Farley is an experienced social entrepreneur who believes in the power of technology for social justice. Currently, Shannon is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Fast Forward, the first and only accelerator exclusively for tech nonprofits. Through her work at Fast Forward, Shannon has accelerated 23 tech nonprofits that are now impacting over 18 million lives around the world. Prior to Fast Forward, she was the founding Executive Director of Spark, the world's largest network of Millennial philanthropists. Before joining Spark, Shannon co-founded The W. Haywood Burns Institute, a MacArthur Award-winning juvenile justice reform organization.