👋🏻 Hi, I’m Oren Robinson. My pronouns are he or they.

I’m a tech worker living on occupied Kumeyaay land, also known as san diego, california.

My family descends from English, Jewish, Celtic, and Germanic settlers during the 1600s-1800s. I was raised on occupied Haudenosaunee land in so-called central and western new york state by a joint-custody family of activists, artists and dropouts.

I studied computer science in college. That’s when fellow students challenged me to confront patriarchy and white supremacy. That’s also when I lived in China for 2 years, immersed in a second language as a white US citizen studying and working in Shanghai, rural Sichuan, and Beijing.

For the past 10 years, I’ve worked with groups to design and build websites, web apps, logos and illustration, graphics projects and digital communications for community-building and systems change work. Over these years, I have developed tech practices for:

• participatory design & collective ownership,
• working myself out of a job, and
• being hella cheap (and/or contributing volunteer tech work as an active member or supporter of a grassroots group, cooperative, open source project, nonprofit, political campaign or mutual aid network)

These days I make free social justice tech resources and tools and hold free social justice tech office hours through Include People, a collaboration space which you can follow and support on Patreon.

I also volunteer with Jewish Voice for Peace San Diego chapter and Espacio Migrante.

One-Page Resume (PDF)

Contact

📧 oren@orenrobinson.com ☎ (619) 777–6960 🐦 @orenrobi

Links

Projects, tools, and experiences that have inspired me, equipped me and moved me:

• Include People, founding member since 2018
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) San Diego chapter, volunteer organizer since 2016, core team 2020-2021
• Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program by Catalyst Project, 2019 participant and 2021 mentor assembly team and facilitation support
• California Democratic Party (CADEM), 2019 Palestine solidarity campaign participant, elected Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC) delegate from January 2021 to January 2023
• Every Public Meeting, volunteer design, code and devops contributions since 2017
• Rockwood Building Power Fellowship, participant from 2020 to 2021
• Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation, initial coordination team volunteer member from March 2020 to July 2021.
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), volunteer national 501(c)4 board member and technical/design consultant from August 2020 to June 2021
• SURJ San Diego Chapter, volunteer core team and member since 2015
• We All We Got SD QTBIPOC-centered COVID-19 Mutual Aid, volunteer tech contributor and core team member in 2020
• Center on Policy Initiatives, tech consultant from 2018 to 2020
• Invest in San Diego Families, tech consultant in 2020
• Svelte and Sapper Javascript Libraries, geeking out about it since 2019
• Espacio Migrante, volunteer board member since 2019
• National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles Chapter, tech consultant since 2017
• Tech Workers Coalition San Diego, founding co-organizer from 2016 to 2018
• San Diego Leaders, tech consultant since 2015
• #ShareMyCheck San Diego/Tijuana, volunteer co-design, code and devops since 2020
• Palestine Photo Project Museum Box, tech consultant and print design since 2018
• “Born Here” Photo Essay of Muslim American Life, volunteer tech consultant and print design since 2018
• San Diego County Democratic Party, volunteer executive board member and secretary from January 2019 to January 2021
• Free The Vote - San Diego County Jail Voter Registration, volunteer code and training in 2018
• Drupal, geeking out about it since 2013
• Action Network, geeking out about it since 2018
• Engage San Diego, tech consultant from 2018 to 2020
• Count Me 2020, tech consultant in 2020
• Catalyst Action Fund, volunteer design and code in 2019
• Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps - San Diego, volunteer social media in 2018
• Love Knows No Borders, civil disobedience participant in 2018
• Make It Better, Vote! San Diego, tech consultant in 2018
• Flip The Script: The Future Is Female Podcast, tech consultant from 2017 to 2018
• Progressive Coders Network, volunteer code and geeking out about it since 2017
• Netroots Nation, attendee in 2018
• Digital Marketing, certificate in 2018
• Be A Voter San Diego, tech consultant in 2018
• Participatory Budgeting, geeking out about it since 2017
• Political Data, Inc (PDI), certificate in 2018
• Android Development, certificate in 2018
• San Diego Refugee Forum, treasurer from 2016 to 2018
• San Diego County Democratic Clubs and Coalitions, volunteer database support from 2016 to 2019
• James Lawson Institute, participant in 2017
• Women Who Change The Game Awards Celebration, print design, event marketing and production support from 2017 to 2018
• Infinity Calendar, Android app published in 2018
• Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA), founding associate director from 2014 to 2016, tech consultant from 2016 to 2018
• Open Badges, tech consultant in 2017
• Gamaliel National Leadership Training, participant 2015
• GoFundMe, platform engineer from 2014 to 2015
• Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association, volunteer board member & tech consultant from 2011 to 2014
• Huaxin Chinese Language School, Chinese language instructor from 2011 to 2013
• OpenScholar, open source contributor from 2010 to 2012
• Make Shift Boston, volunteer collective member & tech consultant from 2012 to 2014
• The David Walker Memorial Project, volunteer web design in 2012
• Community Change, Inc, volunteer event production tech from 2011 to 2013
• Millstone Co-op, volunteer collective member & tech consultant from 2010 to 2013
• MassChallenge, web developer from 2010 to 2012
• Gregorian Calendar Reform, geeking out about it since 2011
• The Shavian Alphabet, geeking out about it since 2010
• Dotsies Font, geeking out about it since 2013
• 北京地球村环境教育中心 (Global Village of Beijing), translation, web design and graphics from 2009 to 2010
• Beijing Energy Network, volunteer design 2009
• Wells College, B.A. in Computer Science in 2009
• Toki Pona, geeking out about it since 2008
• Henry’s VIII A Cappella, baritone, co-director and composition from 2005 to 2008
• Appleseed Productions Community Theater, volunteer actor 2004
• Syracuse Shakespeare Festival, volunteer actor and web design, 2003
• Esperanto, geeking out about it since 2001