Katherine Gehl’s passion is political innovation. She wants to revitalize the way we vote and democracy itself. She co-founded Democracy Found, a nonpartisan group that advocates for open primaries, contests where the four candidates with the most votes would go on to the general election, regardless of their party. She’s not opposed to the dominant political parties, she says, just their monopolistic tendencies. Gehl was also the fourth-generation president and CEO of Gehl Foods, which was purchased by a private equity firm in 2015.