Aden Van Noppen is an entrepreneur, community-builder, and strategist who spent the last decade working within start-up, government, and academic settings to create a more compassionate and just tech ecosystem. She is the founder and co-director of Mobius, a home for people creating technology products, systems, and narratives that support healing, liberation, and our collective wellbeing. She founded Mobius in 2018 after a year as a resident fellow at Harvard Divinity School, focusing on the intersection of tech, ethics, spirituality and justice. Earlier, she was a senior advisor to the US chief technology officer in the Obama White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she developed and led programs that use tech as a tool to address inequality. Van Noppen is a builder with the Omidyar Network’s The Tech We Want initiative and a former affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Before focusing on tech, Van Noppen worked in social enterprise and impact investing, first at the social venture capital fund Acumen, in both New York and Nairobi, and then at an affordable housing start-up in Delhi, India. She was also part of the founding leadership team of The Sanctuaries, a racially and religiously diverse spiritual community, rooted in the arts and social justice. Her work has been featured in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and WIRED.