Millions of Conversations Founding President and CEO Samar Ali will serve as co-chair of the newly launched Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, a national, non-partisan effort designed to heal societal divisions through dialogue and empirical analysis generated by the university.

Ali (pictured) will serve alongside fellow co-chairs former Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham. Ali said the project will lay the foundation to unite Americans around a common commitment to living together as one country where truth and accountability sustain peace and belonging.