Landline / Reconnect Stanford

Co-founder and President
Est. June 2025
Stanford, CA

Training social-media-sober college students to lead honest conversations with middle and high schoolers about addictive tech.

Served as co-founder and president, leading a core team of 8 students of all backgrounds and ages from across campus, from freshmen to master’s students
Over 100 Stanford students permanently deleted their social media at our “Mass Deletion Events”
Featured twice in The Stanford Daily
Co-hosted a screening of “Can’t Look Away” with Facebook whistleblower Arturo Bejar
Invited to speak at The Menlo School’s charity concert for mental health
Explored partnerships with Daylight Computer Company and Yondr

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highlight reel

We explored partnerships and ran events alongside aligned companies like Daylight Computer Company and Yondr Pouches.
We partnered with organizations like Design It For Us and Project Reboot at Berkeley to host a screening of “Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media” with Facebook whistleblower Arturo Bejar.
Phone-free team retreats along the coast were where we did our best work.
Invited to speak at a charity concert for mental health at The Menlo School in Palo Alto about Reconnect Stanford and my experiences growing up on social media.
At our campus-wide “Mass Deletion Events,” over 100 students permanently deleted social media accounts and shared their reasons why together.

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the early days: “reconnect stanford”

Realizing my life would be better off without it, I deleted my Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok accounts during my freshman year at Stanford.

That summer, having felt the difference firsthand, a few like-minded friends and I rallied to start a social media deletion movement on Stanford’s campus. We called it Reconnect Stanford.

We began with just a list of names and testimonies for deletion. From there, we hosted collective “Mass Deletion Events,” organized phone-free hikes, and partnered with aligned sponsors to spark conversation and connection on campus.

Within a few months, we started getting invitations to drive across the Bay Area and speak with younger students about technology addiction and connection, sharing our stories firsthand. We loved the peer-to-peer mentorship model and left every workshop so full of life that we pivoted to make it our main focus, rebranding as Landline.