Larissa May is a digital wellness entrepreneur and the founder of #HalfTheStory, a non-profit dedicated to improving the next generation’s relationship with technology. Larissa founded #HalfTheStory after facing her own struggles with the pressures of social media, and has spent the past 10 years transforming her personal experiences into a global mission to promote intentional technology use. Larissa is recognized as the face of a rapidly growing movement toward digital wellness. As a social entrepreneur and changemaker, Larissa continues to advocate for a balanced, intentional approach to technology while spearheading the next wave of innovation in the digital wellness space.

In 2023, Larz was honored with the Mozilla Foundation’s Rise 25 Award, recognizing her as one of the world’s top 25 leading innovators. She has been featured across major media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Forbes, Bloomberg, Refinery29, Well + Good, Good Morning America, The TODAY Show, and CBS This Morning.

Before founding #HalfTheStory, Larissa played a pivotal role in building some of today’s most celebrated D2C brands, including Kin Euphorics and Otherland, earning the Business Insider Brand Marketing Rising Stars Award for her work. Her entrepreneurial and creative contributions helped redefine how brands connect with their audiences.

#HalfTheStory is a non-profit dedicated to improving the next generation’s relationship with technology. As the first youth-led non-profit of its kind, #HalfTheStory focuses on progressing education and advocacy work surrounding social media and tech use. Through its evidence-based education program, Social Media U, young people in schools across the US, UK, and Canada are taught the skills needed to have a healthy relationship with their screens and are empowered to understand and advocate for their digital health. #HalfTheStory’s funders include Pinterest, Pivotal, a Melinda French Gates organization, The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation, The Archwell Foundation, and The Born This Way Foundation. In 2023, #HalfTheStory was selected by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex as one of the 26 organizations named to the first-ever Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund. In 2024, #HalfTheStory announced an education partnership with Girls Inc. to serve girls across the country.