Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to building a culture of progress for the 21st century. He writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress.

He has written for the MIT Technology Review, been interviewed as a spokesman for the progress movement by BBC and Vox, and given guest lectures at MIT. Vox named him to their “Future Perfect 50” list alongside Will MacAskill, Jennifer Doudna, and Max Tegmark. He is a Founding Fellow at the Cosmos Institute, an advisor to fellows at the Foresight Institute, and a former consultant for Our World in Data. He has received grants for his work from the Mercatus Center and Open Philanthropy.

Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.