Arielle Geismar (she/her) has experience passing bills for young people on a state and federal level, advising nascent and foremost technology companies, advising the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and leading essential advocacy campaigns. Arielle is currently the Co-Chair of Design It For Us, a paramount youth technology policy coalition.

When she was in high school, Arielle organized 10,000 NYC elementary, middle, and high school students to walk out of school to protest inaction on gun violence in America. With speakers such as the AFT President, NY Senators and Congresspeople, and survivors of NYC’s gun violence epidemic, she created a powerful coalition. This action earned the recognition of outlets such as New York Times, CNN, MTV, Buzzfeed, CBS, Vox, Time Out, and the New York Post. At 16 she was highlighted as an intersectional youth role model. 

In 2019, Arielle helped achieve  the passage of a NY state law declaring those convicted of domestic violence need judicial permission to obtain a firearm. To pass this landmark bill, she used her online platform to expand her audience and talk about youth activism, in turn receiving Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21. Arielle maintained her focus on advocacy by deferring her college admission and taking a gap year to work full time on Capitol Hill to pass bills for young people. She took a particular focus on bills supporting her LGBTQ+ community. As she began this process, she lost one of her best friends to suicide the week before high school graduation, and as a result turned her focus towards mental health advocacy. She has concentrated on using digital platforms to connect youth’s online support for a cause to in-person action. 

In 2020, she began consulting in mental health and technology, participating in Headstream’s first youth programs focused on digital design, which culminated in the creation of a curriculum to teach youth co-creation principles to Trust and Safety professionals at Meta, Roblox, YouTube, and Blizzard. At tech ethics design tank Hopelab, she co-designed their youth engagement strategy, and advised on investments in behavioral health technology from a young person’s perspective. 

Arielle has since been advocating for responsible technology that centers well being before profit. She’s been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and has delivered remarks at the Australian Embassy. As a content creator herself, she has accepted influencer campaigns with Patagonia and Toms. In 2023, she accepted work at the British Parliament focusing on technology policy. She was responsible for tracking and editing legislation, advising on policy stances to a Member of Parliament, and representing the Parliament at industry events. She co-designed a campaign to that called on FIFA to take an equity stance for female Afghani soccer players with 100 international parliamentarians and Malala Yousafzai.

As Co-Chair of Design It For Us, Arielle has designed a campaign around explicit deepfakes, managed a coalition of 200+, wrote a forward for a research report about digital harms LGBTQ+ youth, and embarked on a national college campus speaking tour.

In her last year of college, she was elected Student Body President for her university, managing over 90 projects, 60 student cabinet members, and representing 27,000 students.

She holds a B.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in International Science and Technology Policy from the George Washington University.