Sarah Grace Manski, PhD

As a leading blockchain scholar, P2P Foundation Fellow and author on the Technological Commonwealth. Dr. Manski is a political economist, ethicist, global technologist, entrepreneur, and professor at George Mason University. For the past 25 years she has been involved with social impact projects as an activist, labor organizer, journalist, and researcher. Dr. Manski's research is situated at the intersection of global business, new technologies, and social enterprise concerning commons-based peer production, self-sovereign identity, generative value accounting, supply chain transparency, and strategic approaches for a 21st century technological commonwealth. She is a widely cited academic author, keynote speaker at technology conferences globally, advisor at VERSES.io and the Civana Foundation, affiliate researcher with the George Mason University Center for Social Science Research (CSSR), and an Expert Reviewer for the NSF’s SBIR program.