About
Stacia Tipton is a strategic communications professional who has spent her career watching polling data get used, misread, and occasionally weaponized. That experience led her to build Paul, The Polling Monitor, a live civic technology prototype that pairs public opinion data with AI-generated narrative summaries designed to help people understand why others see the world differently.
Her Master of Product Innovation thesis at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) tested the approach in a 1,009-person national survey experiment. It found that how polling is presented shapes how far audiences move toward a minority viewpoint. She helps communicators use AI to understand the people they are trying to reach, not just to produce more content