Our Team

Founder and CEO D’Seanté Parks

D’Seanté Parks is the founder and CEO of 1000 MORE. Her passion for civic engagement started young, growing up in a low-income, underserved community. Her family is from Shreveport, Louisiana and she was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. After graduating from Louisiana State University with a degree in political communication, she started a decade-long career in communication and political strategy for public, private and non-profit organizations. She has worked on federal, state and local elections, including on U.S. Senate campaigns for Senators Mary Landrieu and Kamala Harris. She completed a Master of Public Policy degree at the Harvard Kennedy School and has contributed to several published works about the roots of propaganda in America and combatting misinformation.