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About
Project Liberty

Our Story


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Founded in 2019 by civic entrepreneur Frank McCourt, Project Liberty is building a people-centered digital future in the age of AI. We advance this mission through three interdependent strategies: building world-class digital infrastructure centered on people, shaping smarter policy, and mobilizing a movement for change.

Our work began with a new protocol to provide the shared digital rails for an open, interoperable web. We started with infrastructure because common standards for identity and connection are a prerequisite for restoring individuals’ control of their own data. That work provides the foundation for efforts to give people more agency over their digital identities and relationships, avoid platform lock-in, and manage our interactions with AI agents.



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From Protocols to Platforms

Together with a community of partners, we’ve developed Frequency to put these principles into practice. Frequency currently protects data for over 13 million people, and transforms open standards into a living system that allows people to carry their digital identity, preferences, and context seamlessly across platforms.

The People’s Bid

In 2024, Project Liberty launched The People’s Bid for TikTok, a bold campaign to return one of the world’s most influential tech platforms to the people it serves. The initiative mobilized tens of thousands of supporters, secured $20 billion in capital commitments, and helped catalyze landmark legislation on personal data rights. It revealed both the urgency and the broad demand for a digital economy where people—not platforms—hold power.

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Frequency

Today, Frequency is the practical expression of our vision: an open infrastructure securing data for millions and designed to anchor the agentic web. In an AI-driven world where systems depend on context, Frequency ensures that individuals govern their own information. By enabling context portability across AI models and digital services, Frequency will allow agents to deliver more effective and trustworthy outcomes while preserving privacy, consent, and ownership.

Team


Project Liberty Leadership

Project Liberty Team

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    Scott Bendar

    Head of Software Development

  • Denise Duncan headshot

    Denise Duncan

    Head of Program Management

  • Kila Englebrook headshot

    Kila Englebrook

    Head of Operations

  • Harry Evans headshot

    Harry Evans

    CTO and Co-creator of DSNP

  • Lara Galinsky headshot

    Lara Galinsky

    Head of Partnerships

  • Kenne Ives headshot

    Kenne Ives

    Head of Product

  • Project Liberty Chief of Staff Matt Higginson

    Matt Higginson

    Chief of Staff

Advisors


Project Liberty Advisors

  • Angela Glover Blackwell headshot

    Angela Glover Blackwell

    Founder in Residence, PolicyLink

  • Dr. John DeGioia headshot

    Dr. John DeGioia

    Former President, Georgetown University

  • Todd Golub, M.D. headshot

    Todd Golub, M.D.

    Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

  • Eric Liu headshot

    Eric Liu

    Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

  • Dorcas Muthoni headshot

    Dorcas Muthoni

    Founder, OPENWORLD LTD

  • Dr. Dava Newman headshot

    Dr. Dava Newman

    Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics Chair MIT

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    Alexis Ohanian

    Founder of Seven Seven Six

  • Dan Porterfield headshot

    Dan Porterfield

    President & CEO, Aspen Institute

  • Jeremy Heimans headshot

    Jeremy Heimans

    Co-founder & Chairman, Purpose


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