Our Team
Founder and CEO D’Seanté Parks
D’Seanté Parks is the founder and CEO of 1000 MORE, a patented civic technology platform designed to give people more power in the decisions that shape their lives. The platform helps people understand legislation and take action, gives elected officials new tools to engage and serve their constituents, and enables advocacy organizations to mobilize supporters and crowdfund around issues and campaigns. Since founding 1000 MORE in 2020, she has grown the platform to over 15,000 users and launched MORE POWER, a civic education newsletter that helps people understand and take action on legislation moving through Congress.
D’Seanté’s commitment to civic engagement is rooted in her own experience. Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, with family roots in Shreveport, Louisiana, she grew up in a low-income, underserved community and saw firsthand how decisions made by government could profoundly affect people who often had the least access to political power. That experience shaped her belief that democracy works best when people have the information, tools, and opportunities they need to participate.
She has spent more than 15 years working at the intersection of communications, public policy, politics, advocacy, and social impact. Her career has spanned government, philanthropy, political campaigns, public health, technology, and climate and environmental issues. She currently leads communications at the Global Methane Hub, where she oversees strategic and science communications, executive positioning, crisis and risk communications, and communications around global climate initiatives and partnerships.
Previously, D’Seanté served as a Senior Vice President at SKDK and founded The Parks Agency, advising organizations and leaders on communications, public affairs, and political strategy. She also served as Public Affairs Director for the Louisiana Democratic Party and has worked on federal, state, and local campaigns across the country. Her campaign experience includes serving as Political Director for Jason Kander’s U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri, Community Engagement Director for Kamala Harris’s U.S. Senate campaign in California, and Deputy Research Director for U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu’s reelection campaign in Louisiana.
D’Seanté earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Communication from Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Belfer Young Leaders Fellow. She has published works on misinformation and propaganda. At Harvard, she contributed to the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Election Influence Operations Playbook, developed through the Defending Digital Democracy project to help election officials understand, prepare for, and respond to misinformation, disinformation, and other influence operations targeting elections. She also contributed research, annotation, and to A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker’s World War I Diary, published by LSU Press.
Her leadership and work have also been recognized through fellowships and international networks, including Echoing Green and Atlantik-Brücke. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Through 1000 MORE, D’Seanté brings together her experience in politics, policy, communications, and technology to build a new model for civic participation—one that makes understanding government and influencing public policy easier, more accessible, and part of everyday life.
D’Seanté lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Outside of work, she loves to travel and has visited 25 countries, experiences that have deepened her curiosity about people, cultures, and the many ways communities around the world engage with the institutions that shape their lives.