Keynote: Active Care Interventions in Workshops

I came to facilitation after many years of hosting and presenting live performances. The similarities are deep: engage people, care for them and their experience, produce something meaningful worth everyone’s time. And, sometimes: things go sideways. I presented a framework for active care at Voltage Control’s Control the Room facilitator conference in Austin, 2022. The… Continue reading Keynote: Active Care Interventions in Workshops

Be a Problem-Finding Wizard

~ or, at least, stop solving the wrong problem and wasting your time!~ Question: Modern life. Adulting. Dayjobs. Projects, Clients, Stakeholders. Our families. Vacations. Money … Which one of these doesn’t have problems? Answer: they ALL do, sadly. Our challenge is to identify WHICH problem to work on next with our precious, limited time. That’s… Continue reading Be a Problem-Finding Wizard

Digital Security Training Guide for Organizations

From Fall 2017 – through the Spring of 2018, I got to work with ten other trainers to collaborate on the design and facilitation of a digital security training series for organizations, and our pilot group was organizations supporting immigrants in NYC. In particular, our goal was to “build power – not paranoia!” Over the… Continue reading Digital Security Training Guide for Organizations

SXSW 2018: From Publishing City Data to Solving Problems

I was on a panel March 2018 at SXSW, talking about my work with open data, sharing this stage with the smart: ADRIENNE SCHMOEKER, New York City Mayor’s Office of Data and Analytics MARY TOBIN, Brownsville Partnership ZACK BRISSON, Reboot Sharing stories from the front lines of data impact, we will shine a light on… Continue reading SXSW 2018: From Publishing City Data to Solving Problems

Smart Cities NYC 2017: Open Minds, Open Data panel

It was an honor to share the panel stage with Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, Beth Noveck, and Lourdes German at the Smart Cities NYC conference. The core questions I asked were: What tools or frameworks do we use to generate broad civic engagement with our metrics and data sets? How do we see our development… Continue reading Smart Cities NYC 2017: Open Minds, Open Data panel

The ethics of algorithms: nonprofits, open data, and feedback loops

I recently gave a talk at Thoughtworks’ Ethics of Algorithms series, which was a great opportunity to examine how structured logic appears in my work with decidedly unstructured-leaning organizations. A few key takeaways:   Feel free to grab the slides if they’re of interest: Ethics of Algorithms_Dec16

Workshop 3/11/14: Digital Cataloging and Archiving with Open Source Software

Tuesday March 11, 2014, 6:30–10pm workshop @ Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in NYC. Register online here. Creating and managing digital archives, catalogs, and collections is a growing concern as organizations seek to manage files and records, metadata-gather, and enable complex searches of their cultural production, ephemera, archives and/or born-digital assets. This one-evening, two-part workshop goes… Continue reading Workshop 3/11/14: Digital Cataloging and Archiving with Open Source Software

Political Art Lectures for 2014

I’m writing to share resources for teachers looking for a NYC-based field trips for classes on art/politics/sociology/archives, etc: INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE ON-SITE TOURS I recently began an appointment as the Resident Scholar at the Interference Archive [www.interferencearchive.org], a public archive of political art ephemera in Brooklyn. See a NY Times article on us here. We offer… Continue reading Political Art Lectures for 2014