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MIT Media Lab – Breastpump Hackathon
MIT Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! hackathon June 2014 – Sept 2014 Cambridge, MA MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a private polytechnic research facility. The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. 150 parents, engineers, designers and healthcare givers gathered
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MIT Media Lab – Codesign Studio
MIT Media Lab Codesign Studio September 2013 – May 2014 Cambridge, MA MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a private polytechnic research facility. The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. The Civic Media: Collaborative Design Studio, based at MIT and working
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MIT – Codesign Studio – DiscoTech
MIT – CoDesign Studio DiscoTech January 2014 – March 2014 Cambridge, MA / San Francisco, CA / Mexico City The Civic Media: Collaborative Design Studio, based at MIT, generates civic media projects that are grounded in real-world community needs. They partner with community-based organizations, and use co-design and lean startup methods for project ideation, design, prototyping, testing,
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Digital Humanitarian Network – DHN Summits
Digital Humanitarian Network DHN Summits September 2012 – Current (2017) Washington, DC – Nairobi, Kenya – New York City, NY The Digital Humanitarian Network leverages digital volunteers in support of 21st century humanitarian response. The DHN Summits are a series of gatherings of Members to align our objectives, sort through long-standing conversations, and set Network strategy for the
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About
Everywhere willowbl00 Email work@bl00cyb.org Willow Idlewild Bay Area, CA Willow Idlewild, known as willowbl00, works with digital and process tools to enable coordination between groups of all sizes and shapes. They have studied citizen engagement and combining distributed and centralized decision making structures at the Center for Civic Media at MIT’s Media Lab, been a Professor
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Academics
Education Indiana University Bloomington 2002 – 2007Bloomington, IN BA in Sociology with a focus on technology, human sexuality, and religion. Undergraduate honor’s thesis: The difference between therapy and advancement in medical technology in regards to individual choice and social responsibility. Fellow and Affiliate Harvard UniversityBerkman Klein Center Aug 2013 – Aug 2016Cambridge, MA Affiliate in
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💙 Empathy machine 🤖
work@bl00cyb.org Whether you need to deliver with an uplifted team on a complex set of projects, or need a unified vision and delivery for a floundering vision, I provide equanimity and focus Current AppSec manager at GoFundMe. Always I will always care about end users, whether focused on co-design (like with the MIT Media Lab),
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Digital Humanitarian Network
Digital Humanitarian Network April 2013 – Current There are many organizations using digital tools to improve how disaster and humanitarian response work is done. The Digital Humanitarian Network works to create an easy interface for more traditional response agencies to the services digital groups provide, and to provide a coordinating function for these groups. Role As a coordinator,
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Digital Democracy – Gender Based Violence Hackathon
Digital Democracy Gender Based Violence Hackathon November 2012 – February 2013 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Digital Democracy’s mission is to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights. The Gender-Based Violence Hackathon brought together staff of the gender-based violence call center, students of the local technical college, and international mentors to spec and begin building a reference
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IFRC – Kenya Red Cross Society
International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies Kenya Red Cross Society July 2014 – December 2014 Nairobi, Kenya – Dadaab, Kenya The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian network, whose 17 million volunteers reach 150 million people across 190 National Societies. Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), supported by its partners,
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FEMA – Field Innovation Team
FEMA Field Innovation Team October 2012 – February 2014 New York City, NY FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is a US agency tasked towards disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and education. The Field Innovation Team brings together leaders from robotics, community justice, design, technology and beyond for impact oriented collaboration. Role Deployed to New York for Hurricane Sandy response to
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Work
Current bl00cyborg helps radical nonprofits with their security postures and scaling questions. Digital Assets Help gets your digital estate organized in anticipation of death or incapacity. Always I will always care about end users, whether focused on co-design (like with the MIT Media Lab), protection (with Apple and elsewhere), or facilitating groups to better understand
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White House – FEMA Think Tank
White House FEMA Think Tank February 2013 Washington, DC One portion of FEMA’s “Whole of Community” response initiative included the Field Innovation Team (FIT), tasked with strengthening overall response by amplifying the connection between the formal and informal sectors. This effort was so successful as to be recognized in the Sandy After Action Report as well
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School Factory – Space Federation
School Factory Space Federation August 2010 – June 2012 Milwaukee, WI – Seattle, WA – Chicago, IL The School Factory is a voluntary think-tank concerning public education occurring through community participation. It concerns the development of community-owned and operated learning centers and learning environments. They provide leadership, infrastructure, and training to local community leaders who
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Emerson College – Civic Media Consortium
Emerson College Civic Media Consortium October 2015 – January 2016 Cambridge, MA Emerson’s applied-research Engagement Lab has been working with the Center for Civic Media at MIT, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and the Tisch School for Citizenship at Tufts, to form a Civic Media Consortium. Boston Civic Media enhances undergraduate education by facilitating
