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Standards Strategy @Protocol Labs; Janitor/Community at @DIF + @C.A.S.A.; Researching ActivityPub+AtProto; not on here much

Communications Director & Interim Community Manager at Decentralized Identity Foundation

  • Higher Education
  • Research
  • Teaching
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Preferred workplace:Remote

Restless mind, rolling stone. I've worked in higher education, web design, enterprise software, technical writing, and transdisciplinary academic research. I sometimes come across as an ideas man, but I am also very much at home in detail-oriented logistics, community-organizing, and horizontal organizations.

More of an editor than a writer.

My pet interests are new forms of governance, particularly human-centric data governance, critical race theory (i.e., "inclusion with teeth"), linguistics, and what comes after capitalism.

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Career15

German LLC for project-based and consulting contracts. We pay all our taxes and only accept fiat.

Primary duties: Public-facing education, communication-related member services, messaging strategy, and social media for the Foundation. Secondary duties: general community management, working on foundation processes, programming public conferences, liaising with adjacent foundations, and supporting enterprise recruitment. DIF supports open standards development in the private sector, and is a non-profit co-development project of the Joint Development Foundation, which in turn is part of the Linux Foundation family.

Standards, Open-Source, Internal Communications and Process

I've translated everything from technical manuals, to entire film scripts, to articles in academic research journals, to articles, to poems and novels, mostly from Spanish to English, but also from English to Spanish and from German to English.

Analysis and Systems Admin for a small altcoin holdings firm

Fulltime tenure-track teaching position with lots of administrative and governance work, including edtech research and admin, admissions and finance oversight, program development, and management.

This was a very teaching-intensive short-term position that greatly diversified my experience base as a college instructor, as it was quite different from my teaching experiences prior.

Outside of my home department's wheelhouse (literature, composition, research skills), I also taught Spanish language, film literacy, critical race studies, and history. I digitized a small library collection's card catalog, webmastered for an independent research cluster, trained junior instructors in LMS and founded a pedagogical consortium for GSIs in my department.

Education1

UC Berkeley

PhD, Comparative Literature

Sep 2003 - Jun 2013

Skills10

Business

ManagementProject ManagementStrategic Planning

Creative

User Interface Design

Interpersonal

Qualitative ResearchResearchTeaching

Other

Custom CMS DevelopmentDatabase DesignHigher Education

Languages3

english(Native or bilingual)
spanish(Native or bilingual)
german(Limited working)