Amy Vernon

VP of Community, Rivetz Corp

New York City

Amy is a digital Swiss Army Knife. She's currently VP of Community for cybersecurity blockchain startup Rivetz Corp. She started her career working at The Miami Herald, where she was a member of the staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of Hurricane Andrew. Since then, she’s worked with media companies, social analytics platforms, apps, and the American Museum of Natural History. She co-founded a predictive analytics platform for news publishers and was the top female submitter of all time on Digg.com when that meant something. She is on the founding board of the New York City chapter of Decentralized, the worldwide community surrounding the University of Nicosia's groundbreaking Digital Currency program, and is a founding member of the Crypto Working Group.