Will Conway is a community organizer with over a decade of experience in movement building. Conway served as the National Organizing Director for No Labels, where he built the infrastructure for an independent presidential campaign in 2023, managing the largest department in the organization. Before that, he served as the National Organizing Director for the Forward Party, where he built the movement for the first independent political party in a generation.
Previously, he served as Director, Politics & Advocacy at NationBuilder, a software platform designed to empower independent leaders. There, he built the digital infrastructures movements, nonprofits, campaigns and businesses, including the American Heart Association, Andrew Yang for President, and Exelon Nuclear Energy.
After the death of NationBuilder CEO and close personal mentor Jim Gilliam in late 2018, Conway left NationBuilder with a one-way plane ticket to Cartagena, Colombia. He spent the time before Coronavirus exploring Colombia, Peru, Panama, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, including three weeks in the Amazon Rainforest, five weeks driving the coast of war-torn Chile, and nearly three months in small villages across Colombia. He eventually met his fiance, Fanny, at a hostel in Rio de Janeiro. He spent the year that followed with her in Quebec. They now live together in Queens, New York, with their dog, Rio.