Sam Pressler is a community builder, researcher, and writer focused on issues at the intersection of civic life and social connection. As a practitioner fellow in democracy at the Karsh Institute of Democracy, he is experimenting with a new self-sustaining, self-governing network of place-based civic leaders. 

Pressler is also a research affiliate at the Harvard Human Flourishing Program and writes the Connective Tissue newsletter on the connections, communities, and commitments that bind us together. Previously, he founded and served as the executive director of the Armed Services Arts Partnership, America's largest community arts organization serving veterans and their families.