Carla Fernandez is a community builder and experience designer helping healing ideas enter culture. Through her work co-founding The Dinner Party, Carla is transforming the isolation felt through grief and loss into a source of connection, friendship and forward motion for thousands of 20-40 somethings nationwide. Her work has been featured in New York Times, Good Morning America, O Magazine, and as a case study in over a dozen books. She is an NYU Reynolds Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship, an Annenberg Innovation Lab Senior Fellow and was named one of the most interesting Angelenos by LA Weekly.