Joan Blades, with a background as an attorney and mediator, is a co-founder of LivingRoomConversations.org, an open-source effort to build respectful connections across ideological, cultural and party lines while embracing our core-shared values. Joan previously co-founded MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org and is co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace and The Motherhood Manifesto. (livingroomconversations.org)