A few weeks between Harvard Business School graduation and his next job, at the language learning company Duolingo in Pittsburgh, was all it took for Jackson Shuttleworth to put together Count the Vote — with his infant son, Benji, on his lap much of the time. The website promotes the virtues of being a poll worker, a job drastically understaffed even before the coronavirus pandemic, and puts application forms for 3,000 cities, counties and states just a click away. It's Shuttleworth's first professional foray into civic engagement; he was a management consultant for six years after Boston College and his last venture at B-school was creating Jova, a cold brew coffee company. His answers have been edited for clarity and length.

What's the tweet-length description of your organization?

Making it easy for young people to sign up as a poll worker, anywhere across the country.