[1] Prior to starting Moxxie Ventures, Stanton was the CMO of Color Genomics[2] and the Vice President of Global Media at Twitter.

[4] In January 2010 she was appointed the Special Advisor to the Office of Innovation at the U.S. State Department, where she made extensive use of Twitter.

Previously, Barack Obama appointed her to the newly created Director of Citizen Participation position.

in political science in 1991 and received a MIA master's degree in 1995 from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

From August to October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she went on a USA road trip as a digital nomad after the death of her father.