
STRATEGIST & IDEA(L)IST
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👋 Hi! I’m an expert in open principles, community building, technology for a better world and some other things.
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We Are Open Co-op
I work independently on a variety of creative endeavors and enjoy working through We Are Open Co-op on complex client projects. The co-op members are crazy smart and overall fantastic humans. They’ve called me a “tech wizard”, “creative genius” and “expert facilitator”.

Digital Leader of the Year, 2020
Beginning in 2015, I have been advocating for open principles at Greenpeace International and have spent years helping the organisation become more open. In 2020, I was recognised for this work with a Women in IT Digital Leader of the Year Award.
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All the basics of my biography
I’m a generalist and a specialist. An open strategist. A facilitator. A writer. A technologist. An intellectual multipod. A skater. I’m a lot of things. I create bridges where community, technology and learning meet up.
I work with Greenpeace quite a bit. I spent over 5 years at Mozilla. I am a founding member of the We Are Open Co-op. I’ve failed at a start-up and succeeded at earning a Masters in Media & Education. I write books and make stuff.
I mostly work at trying to make the world a better, cleaner, more equitable place. I like decentralization and distributed leadership.
I’m a thinker and a maker. I teach, speak, collaborate, make and write to help organizations with digital transformation, leadership development, curriculum and open strategies. I work to build healthy, open communities and am an Ambassador for Opensource.com. Find out more about what I do or just get in touch!
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Recent posts
I write for the WAO blog, Greenpeace publications, Opensource.com and many other places on the web. Everything I write eventually ends up on this site, and there are posts here that don’t appear anywhere else. Have a search of the archives if you’re looking for something!
- Thoughts on AI: Scaremongering & Reassurance
A long time ago, I wrote “I’m curious about how augmenting human ability and innovating technology for communication, can help us, collectively, become “educated”.” the Future of Communication Part 1: The Session Nowadays, I look at the world and think “Oops.” I remind myself that being alive has always been sort of complicated. I recently… Read More »Thoughts on AI: Scaremongering & Reassurance - People. Process. Product.
Three lenses to improve your digital strategy cross-posted at WAO “You’ve got to have a system”, as they say. At WAO, we’ve got one that we often apply to strategy projects of all shapes and sizes. Especially digital ones. And it’s easy to remember! 3Ps: People. Process. Product*. In practice, the 3Ps are a series… Read More »People. Process. Product. - The Art of Community: Cultivating Online Connections
Nurturing a healthy online community takes personality, purpose, and persistence. cross-posted on WAO In the world of Open Source, it’s well known that products and projects with a healthy, vibrant community withstand the test of time. For some reason, though, in the ever-expanding digital landscape, “community” is a hard concept to understand. There is an… Read More »The Art of Community: Cultivating Online Connections