In 2009 I founded Bocoup, a technology consulting company where we work with clients to increase accessibility, inclusion and justice on the web through engineering, design, and organizational strategy projects that align with our organizational values. We are committed to making tech spaces safer for marginalized people in our projects and on our team. We use tools like our Code of Conduct to govern the way we work with partners and the tech industry.
Along with running Bocoup day-to-day, I contribute to other projects related to art, technology, and social justice including:
- Volunteering with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition in an engineering capacity to support the organization's campaigns to abolish police surveillance.
- Working with the Consentful Tech Project to support the adoption of consent-based technology through program planning and the speculative design of consent-based flows like reversible web forms.
- Serving as a Steering Committee member for the Design Justice Network, an Allied Media Project, to support a community of design practitioners and activists committed to embodying and practicing radical design principles.
- Building experimental tools for supporting worker organizing like hotlaborsummer.com with collaborators Siena Chiang and Jane Chung.
- Working with the Processing Foundation as an advisor in support of a community of artists and programmers that centers learning, creativity, and justice.
- Interpreting the papers of computer scientist Alice Hartley in order to codify her contributions to the Lisp programming language in a Wikipedia entry detailing her career.
- Joining the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society in the fall of 2017 to develop critiques of the values embedded in "open source".
- Starting a contemporary art gallery called OPEN, focused on tech criticism, in early 2016. After closing in the fall of 2017, I continued to work on follow on projects like The Headstone and Upward Living’s Housing Policy (2018) connected to our final show, and focused on housing justice.
I have also contributed to various open source projects and web standards. From 2011 until 2017, I was an invited expert to the W3C. During this same period, I contributed to popular web programming tools, and helped start an open source trade organization now run by the Linux Foundation.
Before Bocoup, I worked as a front-end developer for an early 2000s health dot-com company, where I built early web video software. My education in software development came from working under the mentorship of other programmers on open source projects, including shadowing the jQuery team to write the jQuery API documentation.
I studied liberal arts (studio art, documentary film, history, and anthropology) at Bennington College from 2003 to 2005. I did not graduate.
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