Esther Dyson

Founder, Wellville

Esther Dyson(@edyson)  is founder of Wellville (@WaytoWellville), a 10-year non-profit  project to nudge society towards long-term thinking and equity by showing the  social and financial value of investing in health and equity.  The Wellville team of six people coaches leaders in five US communities as they work to build sustainable organizations and collaborations to support  the physical, mental and financial health of all their residents.

The five Wellville communities are all under 200,000 in population:  Clatsop County, OR; Lake County, CA; Muskegon County, MI; North Hartford, CT; and Spartanburg, SC. Dyson is the Wellville advisor for Muskegon, and is actively involved in overall policy and fundraising for the project.  When the project ends in 2024, she will focus on spreading its learnings (many from mistakes) more broadly, to other communities, to healthcare systems, to voters and to the government, which is best suited to invest in collective, equitably distributed health.