Protect Democracy’s Ian Bassin on scaling a nonprofit across political divides | Masters of Scale

About Ian

• Co-founded and leads Protect Democracy, a major pro-democracy nonprofit since 2017.
• Served as Associate White House Counsel advising President Obama on constitutional law.
• Helped design White House ethics and compliance practices, upholding democratic norms.
• Launched VoteShield, software to secure and audit US election data integrity.
• Scaled Protect Democracy to 100+ multi-partisan staff, pioneering remote work pre-2020.