IAWF is proud to present Davar Ardalan as the newest member of our advisory board. Davar is highly regarded for her unique insight and will serve as an asset to the advisory board and the organization as a whole. In addition, Davar is speaking at Harvard's "Igniting Innovation Summit" on November 14th on Real-Time Social Impact Storytelling. As the Director of Storytelling and Engagement at SecondMuse, Davar is leading open innovation storytelling projects around citizen science, space innovation, sustainable wearables, and sustainable aquaculture. Davar is creating new collaborative storytelling models that encourage civic engagement in the context of 21 Century social and environmental challenges. As a veteran journalist and former social media strategist at NPR News, Davar's real-time campaigns garnered millions of impressions on Twitter across the globe. In May 2014, she was the recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, for individual achievement and for promoting cultural unity.  At Harvard's "Igniting Innovation Summit", Davar will discuss social humanity expression of itself in spectacular fashion with sustainability and innovation as a common thread and provide insight on the following: How can we capture, curate and cultivate this narrative in real-time? Is this explosion of sources and voices in civic tech, indicative of the need for new collaborative storytelling models?  Event details and further information can be found here .