I work as an online community consultant, and I am launching a geolocative mobile application in September 2010. I also teach a graduate class, “Creating Community Environments,” at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) during the Fall 2010 semester and am writing a dissertation for the University of Virginia mapping local currency, shelter, and food to network vibrancy and tolerance (degree expected 2011). I live in and love Brooklyn, NY.

Until May 2010, I worked at PopTech as the Director of Community (I joined the team in June 2009). Their happy, sunny office (below) is in Brooklyn, and I worked on the PopTech blog, Twitter, and online presence.

I am most interested in connecting online to offline action, and the PopTech network, in equal parts enthused lifehackers and curious intellectuals, was a great place to do just that. My favorite PopTech work remains the FLAP portable light bag, the mobile health Project Masiluleke, and the inspiring Social Innovation Fellows.

In November 2008, as the Knight Foundation Online Community Manager, I launched Knight Pulse, a community site for conversations about the future of news and information.

I also wrote for Knight Blog a few times each week from June 2008 until June 2009.

In August 2008, I designed and launched an incubator site called the Garage for the Knight News Challenge, a yearly $5 million contest to find innovative ideas about news delivery; anyone could sign up, create a profile, create a project, find team members, and receive feedback from Garage “mentors.” There were over 1,600 users in the Garage and 445 projects in three months of activity.

I spoke on behalf of Knight Foundation:

and produced casual video for Knight Blog and for events like the Knight Arts Partnership Winner Announcement:

I enjoy producing and managing special sites for events like a summer 2008 Knight Journalism event in Chicago, where 180 grant recipients were surprised to see video and images up immediately after a session on the event blog.

I managed a team of four bloggers (one’s missing here), took pictures, and interviewed incredible people like Judy Woodruff for a similar internal event when I worked at PBS for their Development Conference:

While at PBS as the Associate Director of Social Media, I helped twenty shows (including Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Nature, Austin City Limits, art21, e2, Roadtrip Nation, Independent Lens, and POV) with social media strategy and helped launch the beta social site PBS Engage, writing for that blog about astronomy, KPBS’s San Diego fire coverage, fair use, and astroturfing.

And I convinced a roomful of television critics at the 2007 TCA Press Tour to start blogging smarter (now that‘s a tough crowd).

Before PBS, I taught an amazing, enthusiastic group of fresh college students about persuasive writing and food at the University of Virginia with a class blog; we took a trip to the farmers’ market to meet the Goat Cheese Man (they became obsessed) and went dumpster diving to learn about freeveganism (Flickr market set).

While teaching, I helped the UVA English Department plan its new Web site (I also designed the Medieval Studies site) and took all the images with people that appear on the site. These are from 2006, when I still shot with film; the first set is of graduate and undergraduate students, the second set features professors.

I gave guest lectures about digital art, congratulated my Media Studies students on graduating, and convinced a very dedicated few that took a summer intensive I designed to hack WordPress PHP, organize a site, and the importance of accessibility standards.

They also tried to out-costume each other during a Flickr scavenger hunt. Introducing the Bread Brigade (we take saving the world from unwholesome code seriously):

And since 2004, I have infrequently designed sites for friends and family:

If you’re interested in hiring me for a project, please find my e-mail on the contact page or send me a message in one of my other online residences.