This project was brought to life by the following people who volunteered their time, talents and expertise. CLR:SKY is the brainchild of Fay Johnson and an extension of her fellowship with the Applied Social Media Lab at the Berkman Klein Center for Social Media.
As we seek to identify interventions and user experience changes that can shift the nature of conversations online, we welcome you input, feedback and collaboration. Please reach out if you would like to engage.
Fay M. Johnson, Founder
Fay Johnson is a seasoned product management leader with over two decades of experience driving innovation in consumer technology. Her work focuses on fostering trust, safety, and meaningful connection across digital platforms.
Fay is a Fellow at Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab where she conducts applied research on depolarization and enhancing civility in online discourse. She is exploring in-app interventions to encourage constructive interactions, grounded in behavior change psychology and pro-social behavioral theory.
Her career includes product leadership roles at Meta, Twitter, and Nextdoor, where she developed and scaled solutions to complex trust and safety challenges. At Meta, she led product efforts on transparency, fairness, and regulatory compliance. At Twitter (now X), she directed teams focused on reporting, appeals, and self-remediation tools to empower users while maintaining compliance with global privacy regulations. Most recently, at Nextdoor, Fay served as Head of Product for Neighborhood Vitality, overseeing trust and safety, content moderation, and AI-driven solutions to promote kind conversations.
Fay also founded Deliberate Discourse, an anti-bias and depolarization initiative that has shaped her passion for creating safe spaces—online and offline—where people can engage meaningfully across differences.
Fay holders a BA from UCLA and a Master’s from Georgetown in Behavior Change Communication.
This project is an extension of her fellowship at Harvard University.
Sergey Povzner, Engineering
Sergey Povzner is an accomplished engineering leader with extensive experience building, scaling, and leading high-performance software teams, supported by over a decade of hands-on technical expertise. His track record demonstrates consistent delivery of impactful results by leveraging deep technical proficiency and strategic leadership in both enterprise environments and innovative startups.
Most recently, Sergey led development teams at Big Health, driving the development of FDA-cleared digital therapeutics mobile applications addressing mental health conditions such as insomnia and anxiety.
Previously, Sergey held key leadership roles at Twitter, directing platform and feature teams responsible for enhancing core mobile and web app functionalities, significantly improving user experience and engineering productivity. At Citybot, he established and scaled a mobile development team, launching highly acclaimed travel planning apps featured prominently by Apple and Google.
Sergey is recognized for his ability to strategically align technical roadmaps with business objectives, cultivate engineering talent, and streamline processes to consistently achieve ambitious organizational goals.
Sergey took the lead on unpacking the Bluesky app code base, to help us modify the composer to allow for the testing of these new beta features.
Tara Soltow, Positioning
Tara Soltow is a brand strategist and marketing advisor with nearly two decades of experience across a multitude of disciplines, industries, and landscapes— from agencies and nonprofits to startups and global corporations. Throughout the course of her career, Tara has built, scaled, and revitalized over 40 brands, leading award-winning campaigns, category-defining product launches, and multi-channel activations for global household names like General Motors, Maker’s Mark, Kellogg’s, and Red Bull; category disruptors like Promise, grubHub, and Groupon; and emerging players in nascent sectors like cannabis and climate.
Today, through her consultancy, Epoch Roots, she develops go-to-market strategies, communication platforms, and brand activation roadmaps for organizations navigating pivotal periods of high-stakes growth and transformation. Whether preparing to launch, entering a new market, or repositioning to adapt to shifting demands, Tara serves as a brand GPS, charting the clearest path forward to get them where they need to go. By connecting dots, surfacing unexplored opportunities, and bridging gaps often overlooked, she ignites ideas into action— building creative, cohesive, compelling brand experiences that engage consumers across every touchpoint and deliver measurable impact in the marketplace.
Tara kindly donated her wisdom to help us frame up our mission, vision and desired impact.
Christine Foo, Designer
Christine is a freelance product designer based in Singapore. She has extensive experience developing consumer apps and previously worked AKQA, the design firm, and Nextdoor the neighborhood social platform.
Scott Witt, Creative Advisor
Scott Witt is founder and Chief Brand Strategist at Parlance. Scott wears the hats of Executive Brand Marketer, Full-Stack Creative Director / Operator and Mentor. Scott kindly weighed in on our naming, branding and overall design strategy.