Carla Fernandez is a strategist for Census Open Innovation Lab where she focuses on designing unexpected experiences that help individuals, teams and communities move forward. Carla has conceptualized and facilitated experiences that include creatives, police chiefs, a youth poet laureate, government appointees, researchers, major funders, brand leaders, and a community of 6,000 millennials she built from scratch with the intention of getting disparate groups of people to connect, come up with ideas and take action together. Her work has been featured in NPR, Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, and as a case study in multiple books. Carla is a Reynold's Scholar at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she concentrated in Social Entrepreneurship, and is a Senior Fellow at USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab.