Co-Founder, Community Organizer & Secretary/Treasurer, ​ Omni Commons
Dec 2013 - Current
Co​-creator of Omni Commons, a community space in North Oakland comprised of eleven member collectives and several semi-autonomous Working Groups (WGs) stewarding shared space and resources and experimenting with consensus-based governance.
¬ ​Commons WG​: Developed booking system​ and ​calendar​; Co-created ​guidelines​ for booking & bottom-lining events; Event bottom-liner for over 100 events (booking, promo, day-of setup, A/V, runner and cleanup);
¬ ​Communications WG ​ Facilitator: ​Setting up and maintaining online presence (​wiki​, ​website​, Twitter​, ​Facebook​, & ​mailing lists​); Designing and publishing newsletters​, swag, and flyers; ​Documentation​; Created ​process​ docs;
¬ ​Finances WG ​Facilitator: ​ Accounting; Budgeting; Financial reporting​; State filings & exemptions; Legal contracts;
¬​ ​Fundraising WG:​ Grant-writing; Crowdfunding​; Procuring community loans; Donor management; ¬ ​Building WG​ Facilitator: ​Work party coordination; Maintaining ​to-do list​; Facilities maintenance & construction.

Co-Founder, Community Organizer & Treasurer, Sudo Mesh
Jan 2013-Current
Coordinating an all-​volunteer nonprofit organization building the People's Open Network​, a community-owned and -​operated WiFi network in Oakland;​ DisasterRadio, a long-range, off-grid communications network; and ​Build Your Own Internet​, a toolkit for building DIY WiFi networks.
¬ ​ Project Management: ​Built and maintain​ project management system (Trello, Github, Google Suite);
¬ ​ Community Outreach: ​Community outreach, interviews, and ​coalition​-building​ with local​ stakeholders and global​ community partners; Onboarding, organizing and retaining volunteers; ​Web​ and graphic design;
¬ ​ Events Coordinator: Giving talks and presentations​ at conferences, schools and festivals; Hosting and promoting regular classes​ & ​workshops​; Organizing weekly node mounts at locations across the Bay Area.
¬ ​ Communications: ​Documentation​; Conducted ethnographic research​ and designed ​use cases​; Press​ liason;
¬ ​ Administration: Managing finances, state filings​ and exemption paperwork; Fundraising and grant-writing; Developed ​business plan​ and 5-year projected budget​.

Community Outreach Coordinator, De Novo Group
July 2014-Jan 2016
¬​ Core Activities: ​ Coordinating community outreach and relationships with customers; Designing and managing events; ​ Web and graphic design​ ; Blogging and social media.
¬ Further Reach is aimed at delivering affordable broadband Internet access to rural communities all over the world, starting with Northern California. The project, in collaboration with UC-Berkeley EECS researchers, was funded with a $2M by Google.org. The grant will be used to develop an open source wireless technology that promises to be cheaper and easier to roll out and manage. The approach is based on Software-Defined Networking (SDN), an increasingly popular approach for enterprise networks and large data centers; ¬ Rangzen/Murmur aims to let people communicate anonymously when there is a government-imposed Internet blackout, as has happened in a number of countries in the last few years. A key aspect of Rangzen is to use smartphones as an anonymous mesh network that exchange messages without using government-controlled infrastructure.

Technology Evangelist, Open Garden
April 2013-July 2014
Early employee of a San Francisco-based startup creating a mobile mesh networking application for sharing Internet connectivity among mobile devices.
¬​ Core Activities: ​ Managing events; Crafting and publishing press releases; Developing community and corporate partnerships; Community engagement (forum, social media, newsletters); Coordinating communications; writing and research.

GNOME Intern, Open Technology Institute
Jan 2013-April 2013
¬ Developing use cases and conducting user research for Tidepools, a hyperlocal mobile mapping platform designed to run on community mesh networks. [Research Wiki]

Information Architect & Linux Sysadmin, Banq Design
June 2011-Jan 2012
¬ Started a web design business with a partner, working with Wordpress and empowering our clients to use the technologies we provide.

Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, San Diego
March 2010 - March 2012
¬ Taught courses on critical theory and communication to undergraduates in the Communication Department.

Social Media Consultant, The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
March-Dec 2010
¬ Consulting for social media outreach campaigns; tabling at conferences and events.

Research Assistant, Howard Rheingold.
July 2009 - March 2010
Mapping out tools and literature on the topic of assessing credibility of information found online for a book on 21st Century Literacies .

Research Assistant, Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society
June 2008 - Aug 2010
¬ Digital Natives Project: Worked with danah boyd to conduct an extensive review of interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the subject of deliberate self-harm and the internet, including popular discourses, quantitative and qualitative studies, legal and grassroots initiatives.
¬ Media Cloud ProjectMass organizing of news stories and blog posts from around the world; tracking the circulation of memes and posing research questions.

Ethnographer, Wesleyan University Academic Library Services
Fall 2006
Ethnoproject on student study spaces with Michael Roy. Conducting interviews with student focus groups; multimodal inquiry into desired future study spaces on campus.

Webtech, Social Psychology Network
Sep 2005-June 2006
¬ Daily site maintenance, data accumulation, and various web-based tasks.

WebTech, Wesleyan University
June 2004-June 2007
¬ Training and experience working for professors: Website design, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, MS Office, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator.