Thanks
My gratitude for the relationships, communities and commitments represented in these projects:
My heartfelt thanks to the dozens of community-building and movement organizers who have entrusted me to co-ideate and co-create projects, and to the dozens who donated to Take Root from Summer 2018 to Summer 2022, sustaining my capacity to volunteer in this way.
Kumeyaay Community College's affordable classes preserving and sharing traditional Kumeyaay knowledge, student spring-fall 2021
Design Justice Network, member since 2021
Center for Political Education seven-part introduction to Marxist theory and practice, participant in 2021
IP3 Action: Indigenous Peoples Power Project, Understanding Settler Colonialism: Practicing Sovereignty, Building Power training participant, 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
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 member since 2015, core team member 2020-2021
Every Public Meeting, volunteer design and code, 2017-2019
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