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[html] => It’s been
quite a while
since I posted on this blog.
I got out of the habit of posting through a combination of factors:
social media (as with everyone), shifting job
responsibilities, and adjusting my priorites to spend some of the time I used to
devote to work and work-adjacent things — like blogging — to
other pursuits.
Nonprofit communications Permalink
In 2014 I was primarily a freelancer working on Drupal websites. I had been
working at the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an
interfaith peace and justice group, primarily as a web developer until then.
Increasingly that shifted into more online communications responsibilities. I
strategized for advocacy campaigns, planned out fundraising drives, and
supported content creation (not to mention
on-the-ground activism).
I gratefully accepted
an NTENny award
from the Nonprofit Technology Network in 2014 for some
of this work, and the presentations I gave at the annual Nonprofit Technology
Conference each year. (In 2015 I got to
introduce Fight for the Future and my friend Evan Greer
to a wider audience at the NTC.)
Frontend engineering with Drupal Permalink
While my work at FOR was fulfilling, they didn’t always have the budget to
support a full-time job for me. So in 2016 I joined
CoLab Cooperative as a senior Drupal developer. I had a
great time doing styleguide–driven development and component-based design
like PatternLab.
As has been true throughout my career, I continued to center social justice as
the framing of my work. With CoLab’s support, I spoke on “Doing good with Drupal
and beyond” at the 2018
Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit:
(You can see
the slides on their own on LinkedIn.)
Way back in the dark ages of the Internet — 1996! — I had built a
website for my parents'
titanium wedding ring business. That
website continued to be updated, including moving onto Drupal Commerce in its
last two iterations, before finally being retired.
Along the way, they began selling a safer cleaning solution for titanium,
Multi-Etch, and it became their primary business.
So after years of helping them out here and there, in 2020 they hired me
full-time as CIO. A little bit of my work involves web development, but a lot of
it is more along the lines of customer management and communications. It’s a
field I’ve had to learn a lot about, but it’s also given me time and tools to
broaden my technology experience.
Consequently, while I’m still a part of the Drupal community — I
volunteered as a contribution mentor at
DrupalCon Portland 2022 — I’ve
spent the last few years learning a whole bunch of new skills. Some of those
include: Hugo (the static site generator now powering
rootwork.org),
“back of the frontend”
Node, and MJML. I also invested time in areas where I’d
wanted to get familiar for years: Bash scripting, SVGs and animation, and using
Linux as my daily workstation.
All of those tools and technologies fit into my work with Multi-Etch in some
way, and as a result I have several projects spanning some of these areas that
I’m excited to share in coming blog posts.
Things that go together Permalink
As my about page (now) says, I have:
worked as a
human rights advocate,
a
community organizer,
and a nonprofit communications manager. I’ve been on
the board of a
justice studies association, helped
nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize,
wrote about
third-party nonviolent intervention
and used
electronic civil disobedience to fight insecure voting systems.
All of that went alongside (and was often funded by) my technological work. But
as in the past, I’ll continue to write about
the intersections between activism and technology,
both the positive and negative. I hope you’ll join me for the journey!
[value] => It’s been quite a while since I posted on this blog.
I got out of the habit of posting through a combination of factors: social media (as with everyone), shifting job responsibilities, and adjusting my priorites to spend some of the time I used to devote to work and work-adjacent things — like blogging — to other pursuits.Nonprofit communications Permalink
In 2014 I was primarily a freelancer working on Drupal websites. I had been working at the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith peace and justice group, primarily as a web developer until then. Increasingly that shifted into more online communications responsibilities. I strategized for advocacy campaigns, planned out fundraising drives, and supported content creation (not to mention on-the-ground activism).
I gratefully accepted an NTENny award from the Nonprofit Technology Network in 2014 for some of this work, and the presentations I gave at the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference each year. (In 2015 I got to introduce Fight for the Future and my friend Evan Greer to a wider audience at the NTC.)Frontend engineering with Drupal Permalink
While my work at FOR was fulfilling, they didn’t always have the budget to support a full-time job for me. So in 2016 I joined CoLab Cooperative as a senior Drupal developer. I had a great time doing styleguide–driven development and component-based design like PatternLab.
As has been true throughout my career, I continued to center social justice as the framing of my work. With CoLab’s support, I spoke on “Doing good with Drupal and beyond” at the 2018 Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit:
(You can see the slides on their own on LinkedIn.)Old websites and new tools Permalink
Way back in the dark ages of the Internet — 1996! — I had built a website for my parents' titanium wedding ring business. That website continued to be updated, including moving onto Drupal Commerce in its last two iterations, before finally being retired.
Along the way, they began selling a safer cleaning solution for titanium, Multi-Etch, and it became their primary business. So after years of helping them out here and there, in 2020 they hired me full-time as CIO. A little bit of my work involves web development, but a lot of it is more along the lines of customer management and communications. It’s a field I’ve had to learn a lot about, but it’s also given me time and tools to broaden my technology experience.
Consequently, while I’m still a part of the Drupal community — I volunteered as a contribution mentor at DrupalCon Portland 2022 — I’ve spent the last few years learning a whole bunch of new skills. Some of those include: Hugo (the static site generator now powering rootwork.org), “back of the frontend” Node, and MJML. I also invested time in areas where I’d wanted to get familiar for years: Bash scripting, SVGs and animation, and using Linux as my daily workstation.
All of those tools and technologies fit into my work with Multi-Etch in some way, and as a result I have several projects spanning some of these areas that I’m excited to share in coming blog posts.Things that go together Permalink
As my about page (now) says, I have:
worked as a human rights advocate, a community organizer, and a nonprofit communications manager. I’ve been on the board of a justice studies association, helped nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize, wrote about third-party nonviolent intervention and used electronic civil disobedience to fight insecure voting systems.
All of that went alongside (and was often funded by) my technological work. But as in the past, I’ll continue to write about the intersections between activism and technology, both the positive and negative. I hope you’ll join me for the journey!Top image credit Flickr user blavandmaster.
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