Rahmin Sarabi is the Founder and Director of the American Public Trust, with a mission to empower the problem-solving and agency of everyday Americans to unlock major challenges, bridge our divides, and create better futures. He is a social entrepreneur, human-centered designer, and strategist with a nearly 20 year background across social benefit startups and not-for-profit organizations. His roles have spanned early stage discovery, design research, product management, people operations leadership, and strategic facilitation.

Rahmin’s work in deliberative democracy includes contributions to the Michigan Citizens’ Panel on COVID-19, the Petaluma Fairgrounds Advisory Panel, a novel integration of mini-publics with digital deliberative tools for the State of Colorado, and leading the strategic planning for the Democracy R&D network. He has spoken on democratic innovations to audiences organized by Stanford, MIT, TED, the Berggruen Institute, and the International Association of Public Participation Professionals. He is also a board member of the Co-Intelligence Institute.