Susan Mernit

Overview

Susan Mernit is CEO of Hack the Hood which co founded while running Oakland Local an impactful hyper local news site and working as a technical support for The Knight Foundation s Community Impact Challenge program. A former VP at AOL & Netscape & a former Yahoo! Senior Director Mernit has been a consultant for organizations including Public Radio International Salon.com & TechSoup Global. She led a start up that was a 2008 Tech Stars Company and worked with Jeff Jarvis to launch The Yuckiest Site on the Internet one of the first young web sites (acquired by Discovery Communications.) A TechStars alumni Mernit advises on women and POC led start ups and is an active member of Oakland s TechEquity Collaborative.A skilled trainer and speaker Mernit has taught workshops on social media and news and strategy for The Poynter Institute the Knight Digital Media Center at USC/Annenberg School of Journalism and for the Knight Foundation. In 2012 she was a Carlos McClatchy Fellow at Stanford University School of Journalism. Mernit is an avid reader game player and exerciser when she s not at work or hanging out with her partner and family.